Mr David Emmerson > Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP
The Cottons Centre 5th Floor
South-West Hay's Lane
SE1 2QG
England

Living Wage

Work Department

Family team with expertise in litigation, collaborative law and mediation

Position

Partner in the family team focusing on the children and financial aspects of divorce and relationship breakdown.

Career

David Emmerson OBE is a partner, hybrid trained mediator and part time district judge with a complex financial remedies and private law children ticket. David is the chair of Resolution’s Dispute Resolution committee He is also a collaborative practitioner and also has experience with co-habitation, pre & post nuptial agreements.

Memberships

  • David has written many articles for Family Law, The Law Society Gazette, New Law Journal, Family Law Week, Resolution’s Review, and the Solicitor’s journal. He has been interviewed on family law matters by the Telegraph, Guardian, Observer and Independent
  • David is the author of Butterworth’s Family Law Service domestic abuse and dispute resolution sections and was a co-author of Resolution’s Family Law Handbook
  • David has been an elected member of Resolution’s National Committee since 2003. Resolution is the national organisation that represents over 6500 family law and dispute resolution professionals. David chairs their Dispute Resolution committee dealing with mediation, collaborative law and arbitration
  • A member of Thomson Reuters Practical Law Family editorial board
  • David is an Serious Case and Anti – Discrimination Panel Chair for the Football Association as part of their strategy of combating all forms of discrimination in football
  • Member of Lexis Nexis’ editorial board

Education

De Montfort University Leicester. College of Law

Leisure

Walking, talking, cycling, dancing and love of live music and meals with friends

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Family: mediation

(Leading partners)

David EmmersonAnthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP offers a ‘holistic service‘ with ‘some of the most experienced mediators in the country‘. Caroline Bowden ‘is a standout star‘ in the team, conducting traditional and hybrid mediations surrounding issues including foreign jurisdictions, inter-generational concerns, and children-related matters. Recommended for her ‘vast experience‘, Kim Beatson carries out civil and commercial work alongside family mediation. For international assets and jurisdictional issues, David Emmerson is a go-to: ‘an unfailingly fair mediator‘, Emmerson ‘offers the highest level of expertise across the family law spectrum’. Fiona Snowdon qualified as a mediator in January 2023.

London > Private client > Family

(Leading partners)

David EmmersonAnthony Gold Solicitors LLP

The Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP family team offers a ‘holistic service‘, providing advice across matrimonial finance issues, cohabitation disputes, complex children work, and wealth protection team members are praised as ‘not only brilliant lawyers, but amazing with clients’. Kim Beatson co-heads the family team, bringing ‘vast experience’ to high-value financial matters. Fellow co-head Sarah Hughes often handles family-owned business assets relating to divorces, nuptial agreements, and private children law matters. International surrogacy matters are an area of strength for Fiona Snowdon, while David Emmerson is a go-to for jurisdiction issues.