Rachael Bicknell

Biography

Rachael is ranked as a Leading Mediator in Chambers and Partners (2024) and Legal 500 (2024). She consistently receives excellent client feedback and has been described as “hugely skilful”, “impressive”, “incredible”, “the best mediator I’ve come across in a long time” and “my first choice of mediator”. She is renowned for her calm, assured and personable manner, her thorough preparation, and her ability to grasp complex technical issues and to quickly understand multiple issues and competing interests. Rachael is also praised for her tenacity and resilience in helping the parties to come to a resolution, even when they remain some considerable distance apart.

Rachael is an Accredited Specialist in Professional Negligence Law by the Law Society of Scotland, where she practiced as a solicitor in two of the UK’s most successful premium law firms. During this time she represented clients in mediations and solicitor to solicitor negotiations of professional negligence disputes ranging in value from hundreds of thousands to multimillion pound claims. Reflecting her former practice, Rachael is appointed in solicitor, construction, engineering and architect professional liability cases, where the law is essentially the same north and south of the border.

Rachael has worked with insurers in Scotland and England and has mediated disputes with parties from the UK, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the USA, Canada and Australia.