Our Family department was praised in the prestigious legal directory Chambers & Partners. The 2012 edition says that the team “handles an impressive workload, representing professionals in Bristol and throughout the South West. It is well regarded for complex ancillary relief matters involving pension and property arrangements, family businesses and substantial assets.”
Top family lawyers
It’s the department’s sensitive handling of complex divorce issues that makes Gregg Latchams a very good team to work with.
Two of the team’s lawyers are again included as Leaders in their Field. Department head, Victoria Daniell has “a fantastic reputation for her matrimonial finance practice and is extremely pleasant to deal with”. She is rated in Band 1 placing her in the top 7 family lawyers in the South West region. Sarah Atkinson is noted as an ‘Associate to watch’ given her expertise in handling “matrimonial finance matters involving complex assets and pensions”.
Victoria said “To be rated in the top 4 Bristol-based firms for family law advice is a real honour. We focus on offering clients specialist advice with a wide range of services to enable them to choose the best way to resolve their family disputes. Not everyone wants to use the court as the vehicle to sort out family issues on separation, particularly where there are children involved. Our team at Gregg Latchams offers collaborative law and mediation as well as the more traditional negotiation and court-based methods of resolution."
Minismising emotional and financial cost
Victoria and Associate, Sally Orme are both Resolution Accredited Specialists and trained collaborative lawyers. Victoria added “Our team does not only deal with the consequences of family breakdown, we also advise on the protection of assets in the form of pre-nuptial or cohabitation agreements. All our family lawyers are members of Resolution, the family lawyers association committed to working in a constructive and non-confrontational way. In adopting this approach we hope to minimise the emotional and financial cost to our clients of sorting out issues arising on separation."
Value for money specialist advice
“I am excited to announce that the department is expanding with the addition of Marissa Rabone, a talented solicitor who recently completed her training at Gregg Latchams. In the current economic climate value for money is extremely important for those needing specialist family law advice. By expanding the department we can offer our clients specialist lawyers working together at a range of competitive charge rates.”
The directory also gives specific recommendations to other partners of Gregg Latchams, Richard Hill in Real Estate, John Dalby in Employment and Richard Gore in Dispute Resolution.
