Lisa Morgan
Position
Partner
Service(s)
Areas of expertise
Profile
Lisa
Morgan is a Partner in our Nursing Care Department. She is
regarded as an experienced and specialist solicitor leading in the
niche area of continuing healthcare. She has acted for hundreds of
clients in England and Wales in challenging current and
retrospective decisions to refuse NHS funded continuing healthcare
to long-term nursing home residents. Her department has
successfully recovered over £20 million in wrongly paid
nursing fees, as well as savings for the future.
She
has been instrumental in developing a niche legal department in
Hugh James, which comprises of 22 fee earners who solely act
for the elderly and families in recovering wrongly paid nursing
fees. She was the lawyer who acted for the family in the
publicized Public Services Ombudsman for Wales report criticising
Cardiff Local Health Board’s decision not to fund nursing home
fees; the family of the late Mrs Marjorie Eyton-Jones, who
successfully retrospectively recovered over £165,000 in nursing
home fees and Mr Leslie Terry who recovered over £250,000 in
nursing home fees.
Lisa lectures widely on the
subject of continuing care to professionals and the voluntary
sector and is regularly turned to by the media as an expert in the
field. She is also supervising solicitor for the award winning
Cardiff
Law School’s Continuing Healthcare pro bono scheme and a
Committee Member for the South Wales’ Solicitors for the Elderly
Regional Group. She was shortlisted in June 2011 for 'Junior Pro
Bono Lawyer of the Year'.
Lisa won the prestigious and highly acclaimed Law
Society Junior Lawyer of the Year 2010 Excellence Award.
Lisa's nomination was supported by Age Cymru and Pat
Brand the Co-coordinator of Cardiff University Pro bono
clinic. More information about the Awards and the ceremony is
available by reading our news release.
Lisa regularly gives media interviews and is called on by the
press as a commentator. She has appeared on The One Show, BBC
Breakfast News, the ITV Tonight programme and various radio shows
as an expert in her field. Read more about our cases in the press.
Professional career
Trained: Hugh James
Qualified at Hugh James 2006
Associate at Hugh James 2009
Senior Associate 2010
Partner 2011
Personal interests
Travel and Lisa loves nothing more than
sharing a bottle of wine with friends
Lisa Morgan
Partner
E lisa.morgan@hughjames.com
T 029 2022 4871