Claudia Gilham > Mills & Reeve LLP > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
Mills & Reeve LLP Offices
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LEEDS
LS1 2ES
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Claudia Gilham
Work Department
Family
Position
Principal Associate
Expertise:
- Advising on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown, commonly on complex cases involving business assets, farms, trusts and pensions
- Emotive and technically complex children work including those including domestic abuse, substance misuse and relocation
I am also a Consultant for Safe Lives providing training to solicitors, barristers and mediators on the impact of domestic abuse
Career
Trained: Anthony Collins Solicitors
Qualified: 1 March 2012
I’ve worked for M&R for the last six years.
I resigned as a Trustee of IDAS in July of this year (2022). I had been in post for 7 years. IDAS is the largest domestic abuse charity in Yorkshire and the tenth largest in England. I was trained by domestic abuse practitioners regarding the impact of domestic abuse as part of my role. I was Chair of our Audit Committee in my final two years.
Memberships
Resolution
Education
BA in Philosophy and Politics (2005) – University of York
LLB in Law (2008) University of Law
Leisure
I am the Secretary/ Co-ordinator and play rugby for York Women’s RUFC
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
(Next Generation Partners)Philip Way leads the family department at Mills & Reeve LLP in Leeds. The team has particular experience regarding complex financial agreements, including multi-jurisdictional disputes; pensions and trusts – both domestic and international – and marital agreements. With assistance from the wider firm nationally, the team is able to offer support from a network of arbitrators, mediators and collaborative lawyers. Claudia Gilham specialises in domestic and international financial remedy cases, including pre- and post-marital agreements. Ellen Wilkinson is ‘one to watch’, with notable expertise in children disputes and national fertility law work.
Lawyer Rankings
- Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client
- Next Generation Partners Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Insurance > Professional negligence
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Public sector > Education
- Public sector > Health
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition