Mrs Karen Moores > Sydney Mitchell LLP > Sheldon, England > Lawyer Profile
Sydney Mitchell LLP Offices
SHAKESPEARE BUILDINGS
2233 COVENTRY ROAD
SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM
B26 3NL
England
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Mrs Karen Moores
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 individuals)The ‘very efficient’ team at Sydney Mitchell LLP is co-led by Karen Moores and Mauro Vinti – the ‘friendly and approachable‘ group covers a broad spectrum of issues from divorce and civil partnership dissolution to child arrangements and protective injunctions. The firm also has a well-regarded collaborative law practice with two fully-qualified collaborative lawyers . Teresa Mannion is also an Advanced Family Law Panel member. Senior associate, Gemma Whitchurch, has considerable experience in cases where domestic violence is an issue.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals West Midlands > Private client > Family: Birmingham
- Family: Birmingham West Midlands > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Private client > Family: Birmingham
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Employment > Employment
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Real estate > Property litigation