Jane Mitchell > Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP > Oxford, England > Lawyer Profile
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices
9400 GARSINGTON ROAD
OXFORD BUSINESS PARK
OXFORD
OX4 2HN
England
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Jane Mitchell
Work Department
Family.
Position
Head of the family law team in Oxford, specialising in family law, particularly in more complex financial cases and difficult disputes concerning arrangements for children. Accorded top ranking in both Chambers UK and The Legal 500 for many years. A Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, one of only a relatively small number of UK family law specialists outside London who are members.
Career
Articled Dawson & Co, Lincoln’s Inn 1986; qualified in 1988, and joined Manches & Co’s family department in London; moved to Oxford in 1995 to set up its family department there. A qualified collaborative lawyer.
Memberships
Resolution; Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.
Education
York University (1984 BA hons English and related literature); College of Law, Chester.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
(Hall of Fame)Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP‘s Reading and Oxford-based family team runs the gamut of family matters, and is noted for its expertise in international cases. Jane Mitchell 
makes a ‘formidable opponent’, specialising in complex financial and children matters as well as pre and post nuptial agreements. Mitchell co-heads the Oxford team with Ruth James, whose practice consists of financial matters involving trusts, offshore entities and companies. The practice gained the expertise of Jolene Hutchison in 2024, who joined the Oxford office from Knights.
Lawyer Rankings
- Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40 South East > Private client
- Hall of Fame South East > Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Employment > Immigration
- Insurance > Professional negligence