Mr Robert Williams > Family Law Partners > Brighton, England > Lawyer Profile
Family Law Partners Offices
5 CLIFTON MEWS
CLIFTON HILL
BRIGHTON
BN1 3HR
England
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Mr Robert Williams
Work Department
Family
Position
Founding Director, Solicitor, Collaborative Lawyer & Arbitrator
Career
Robert qualified 1994 and specialises in family law. He is a Collaborative Lawyer, Deputy District Judge, Family Law Arbitrator and a member of Resolution (First for Family Law). Robert specialises in finances following a relationship breakdown, whether by separation, divorce, or dissolution of civil partnership. In the 2019 edition of Legal 500, he was recognised for his financial remedy and arbitration work and described as a ‘first-rate, empathetic family lawyer’.
Memberships
Robert is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Robert is a member of Resolution and an Accredited Specialist in ancillary relief and emergency procedures. He is a Resolution trained Collaborative Lawyer and a member of Brightpod, Seapod and a founding member of Sussex Family Solutions, an inter-disciplinary network of collaborative lawyers, mediators, counsellors, life coaches and IFA’s.
Education
LLB (Hons) Anglia Ruskin, First Class Hons Solicitors’ Finals.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Family: Essex
Louise Buttery leads the Essex-based team at Family Law Partners, which is led nationally by Robert Williams in Brighton. The team stands out for its dispute resolution offering, exemplified by Buttery’s qualification as a mediator. The firm exhibits a great deal of expertise in complex child arrangements involving grandparents, and international matters.
South East > Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
(Hall of Fame)
Family Law Partners leverages its network of offices across Brighton, Horsham and Tunbridge Wells, and its extensive alternative dispute resolution offering consisting of trained mediators, and its involvement of therapists in mediation; Gemma Hope is key to this work. Lisa Burton-Durham heads the Brighton team, and Christopher Maulkin is a key name for TOLATA matters. The Horsham team is headed by the ‘simply phenomenal’ Kate Elliott, whose expertise lies in complex assets in financial cases, while Charlotte Plowman maintains a modern families focused practice. Managing Director Robert Williams, in Brighton, has longstanding experience in financial remedies work.
Lawyer Rankings
- Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex South East > Private client
- Hall of Fame South East > Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Family: Essex South East > Private client