Consilia Legal > Leeds, England > Firm Profile

Consilia Legal
4 Park Place
Leeds
LS1 2RU
England

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Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire Tier 2

Consilia Legal’s family team across Leeds and Harrogate is made up of accredited mediators and family solicitors. Director and co-founder Laura Clapton is trained as a direct child consultant, able to speak to children as part of the mediation process, and as a hybrid mediator. The firm is dedicated to offering alternative dispute resolution solutions to clients, including through an online mediation service. It has notable experience of dealing with complex Children Act proceedings, including cases regarding parental alienation and coercive control. In addition, the team particular strength regarding overseas assets, pensions, and complex business structures. Sandeep Sandhu has extensive experience regarding intervener cases.

Leading individuals

Laura Clapton – Consilia Legal

Practice head(s):

Laura Clapton

Other key lawyers:

Sandeep Sandhu

Work highlights

Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire Tier 4

Consilia Legal is best known for its litigation specialism, with an established track record in whistleblowing and discrimination matters before the Employment Tribunal. It also has demonstrable capabilities in relation to senior departures, representing both high-level employees and employers in this regard. Marie Walsh heads the practice and co-directs the entire firm, with broad capabilities across employment and qualification as a workplace mediator.

Practice head(s):

Marie Walsh

Consilia Legal is an award-winning, boutique law firm based in Leeds. The firm specialises in employment and family law and is recognised for giving clients pragmatic and straight-talking advice.

Consilia Legal has grown quickly since it’s establishment in 2014 and has earned a reputation for offering a high level of service to clients.

Types of work undertaken
Family: The family team specialises in all aspects of private family law including divorce/civil partnership dissolution, financial remedy cases, private Children Act matters, pre/post nuptial agreements and TOLATA applications. It is highly experienced in dealing with litigated matters from complex Children Act proceedings, involving fact finding hearings, to high net-worth finance cases with multi-million pound assets, involving business structures, overseas assets, pensions and property portfolios. The team has an excellent reputation in this area and receives referrals from other professional service providers. Experts in high net-worth cases involving an Official Solicitor where the client lacks capacity and receives repeated referrals due to its expertise in dealing with these matters.

The team also offers a range of family mediation services to clients both in person and across the UK through its online mediation service. It is passionate about the benefits that mediation can bring to clients and families. It can also speak directly to children as part of the mediation process. The team has two dedicated websites for mediation clients locally and nationally consiliamediation.co.uk & onlinemediationservice.co.uk

Employment: The employment team is focused on offering a straight-talking, practical and open approach, delivering high quality legal services that utilise modern technology and education initiatives. It specialises in providing day to day support to clients on a number of contentious and non-contentious issues including employment tribunal representation.

The team is highly respected in the market for advising public listed companies, SMEs, owner managed businesses and individuals. Specialists in dealing with highly contentious exits of top end executives for both company and individual clients and has developed a niche in discrimination and whistleblowing claims.

The team has been increasingly proactive in offering insurance backed employment law retainer packages under its Fortress business protection brand to employer clients. Fortress offers a range of options to prospective clients both with and without an insurance element and has a dedicated website – consiliahrsupport.co.uk

The team also offers a range of workplace mediation services that are available online and in person.

Name	Position	Profile
Andrew Boyde	Senior Associate Solicitor	View Profile
Mr Matthew Bretherick	Solicitor	View Profile
Ms Claire Chisnall	Senior Associate Solicitor	View Profile
Laura Clapton	Director & Head of Department	View Profile
Victoria Horner	Senior Associate Solicitor	View Profile
Zara Rafiq	Solicitor	View Profile
Marie Walsh	Director and Head of Employment	View Profile
Kelly Walters	Senior Associate Solicitor	View Profile