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JMW Solicitors LLP
THE PLAZA
100 OLD HALL STREET
L3 9QJ
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Pauline McNamara

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0151 317 3733 [email protected]

Work Department

Family Law

Position

Pauline McNamara joined JMW’s Liverpool office in February 2024 as a Consultant Partner in the Family Team.

Pauline’s area of specialisation are:-

    • Acting in high conflict divorces.
    • Negotiations of difficult financial settlements.
    • Litigation concerning family business.
    • Disputes relating to property owned by family members/third party trusts and third parties within divorce proceedings.
    • Particular interest in acting against narcissistic and borderline personality types.
    • A conflict contested cases relating to children.
  • Pre and post nuptial agreements

Referred to as brilliant in the 2015 Legal 500, Pauline was said to head an excellent team. The 2019 edition of the guide described Pauline as a strong and experienced negotiator who is supported by a close group of fee earners, a force to be reckoned with. Pauline has been consistently ranked within the Chambers and Partners legal directory since 2017. Pauline is also a recommended family lawyer on the Spear’s 500.

Pauline enjoys travelling. Pauline can also be found supporting through thick and thin Everton Football Club and particularly enjoys supporting all of the team members who she has previously mentored throughout the years of her practicing and seeing how they all thrive.

Lawyer Rankings

North West > Private client > Family

The highly knowledgeable family law team at JMW Solicitors LLP ‘provides a first-class service and has an enviable reputation in the sector‘. The Manchester-based group is co-led by Elspeth Kinder, who has extensive experience in acting for high-net-worth clients in divorce and matrimonial finance cases, as well as children work, and the ‘strategically aware and commercial‘ Michael Chapman, who has particular expertise in Schedule 1 claims. Also in Manchester, David Pickering is a divorce expert who frequently advises clients with assets located overseas and offshore trusts, and Katie Lowe, who focuses on the financial side of divorce and is praised by clients as ‘simply brilliant‘. The group also includes head of the Liverpool team Beverley Jones, who specialises in high-net-worth financial proceedings and children cases, such as Schedule 1 claims and surrogacy matters, and in-house counsel Abigail Bennett, who is a ‘formidable advocate and strategist‘ in cases relating to matrimonial finances, Schedule 1 claims, and Children Act proceedings. Pauline McNamara joined the firm’s Liverpool office in February 2024.

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