Mark Leeson > Brachers > Maidstone, England > Lawyer Profile
Brachers Offices
SOMERFIELD HOUSE
59 LONDON ROAD
MAIDSTONE, KENT
ME16 8JH
England
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Mark Leeson
Work Department
Family law
Position
Partner and Head of Family
Career
Mark co-heads Brachers’ family law team with Mei-Ling McNab. He joined Brachers in May 2012 and has practiced in the field of family law since qualifying in 1990. Mark is a solicitor specialising in family law.
In 1995 Mark trained as a mediator and was accredited by the Family Mediators Association (FMA). In the late 1990s, he was a trainer on the mediation foundation courses run by the FMA and maintains a strong interest in mediation.
Mark undertook the training to work as a collaborative family lawyer in 2007 and believes strongly in providing clients with a range of options through dispute resolution.
Mark specialises in Family:
- Divorce
- Financial proceedings
- Civil Partnership dissolution
- Children Act proceedings
- Cohabitation agreements
- Collaborative process
- Mediation
Memberships
- The Association of Contentious and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) Membership
- Resolution Specialist Accreditation
- Family Mediation Accreditation
- Presenter for Law South Introduction to Family Law course
- Kent Resolution committee member
- Resolution training committee member
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
Offering clients the full range of dispute resolution assistance and advice in areas of specialism such as high-value matrimonial, children and international relocation cases and pre and post-nuptial agreements, Brachers’ family department, spread across Maidstone and Canterbury, is ‘extremely knowledgeable and efficient’. ‘Confident advocate’ Mark Leeson co-heads the practice with Mei-Ling McNab, offering experience in matrimonial finance, children and cohabitee disputes and mediation proceedings. McNab, who is a ‘highly intelligent’ and ‘excellent collaborative lawyer’, leads on many matters including Children Act proceedings as well as marital disputes in the agricultural and business sectors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Public sector > Public sector
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery