Mrs Karen Moores > Sydney Mitchell LLP > Sheldon, England > Lawyer Profile

Sydney Mitchell LLP
SHAKESPEARE BUILDINGS
2233 COVENTRY ROAD
SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM
B26 3NL
England

Work Department

Family, Senior Partner

Position

Senior Partner and Head of the Family Team.  Karen is recognised as a Leading Individual in the Legal 500.

Karen helps her clients to resolve the issues associated with family breakdown including: matrimonial finance; complex children’s issues; managing substantial assets; complex pension issues; breakdown of civil partnerships. Karen advises husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, and grandparents, partners in civil partnerships and other legal professionals in all aspects of family law. Karen has formidable negotiating skills and achieves high levels of settlement and client satisfaction. She adopts a firm but fair approach to all aspects of her litigation with an eye to the commercial realities.

Career

Trained Young & Lee; qualified 1992. Trainee to partner Young & Lee 1990-98; partner Sydney Mitchell 1998 to date.

Memberships

Resolution.

Education

Priory Grammar School, Shrewsbury; Essex University (1989 LLB (2:1)); Chester College of Law (1990).

Lawyer Rankings

West Midlands > Private client > Family: Birmingham

(Leading partners)

Karen MooresSydney Mitchell LLP

The ‘very professional and attentive’ team at Sydney Mitchell LLP is co-led by Karen Moores and Mauro Vinti. It frequently advises on areas such as divorce and the dissolution of civil partnerships, financial remedies, protective injunctions and child arrangements. The group is well-placed to advise on asset protection by way of pre- and post-nuptial agreements. Moores often advises on matrimonial finance, the management of substantial assets and complex children’s issues. Senior associate Gemma Whitchurch plays a pivotal role in the department too.