Sarah Jane Lenihan > Dawson Cornwell LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Sarah Jane Lenihan
Work Department
Matrimonial
Position
Partner specialising in financial remedies and private law children matters. Widely regarded for her expertise in complex cases, Sarah Jane has extensive experience in challenging and emotionally charged matters involving allegations of domestic abuse, parental alienation and safeguarding issues. She is also known for advising individuals with substantial income and assets with complex international elements, and a variety of financial, business and trust structures.
Career
Qualified in 2010 and has practised family law exclusively since then. Partner at Stowe Family Law. She joined Dawson Cornwell as a Partner in 2022.
Memberships
Family Law Advanced Accreditation from The Law Society with particular expertise in financial remedy and domestic abuse; member of Resolution; member of the Resolution Litigants in Person working committee; London Resolution Committee Equality, Diversity and Inclusion champion.
Education
LLB (Hons) Law Nottingham Trent University; Legal Practice Course – Commendation at London College of Law Bloomsbury.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Leading partners)‘Probably the best specialist family law team in London‘, Dawson Cornwell LLP has ‘an exceptional breadth of talent and skills’, handling international matters, high-value financial disputes, and public children law issues. Russell Bywater heads up the matrimonial department, with particular expertise in international trust matters, while Carolina Marín Pedreño leverages her ‘huge depth of expertise and experience’ to lead the children department. The ‘impossibly clever‘ Simon Bruce combines high-value international finance work with child custody expertise and experience as a mediator, while Sarah Jane Lenihan is sought after for private law children matters, including those which involve safeguarding concerns. Jessica Reid, also a trained mediator, regularly handles financial cases involving nondisclosure of assets, which is also an area of strength for former commercial litigator Charlotte Conner. International enforcement matters are often handled by Anna Shadbolt, and international children matters are an area of specialism for Forum Shah. Charlotte Image-Flower deals with a range of sensitive public children matters, particularly care proceedings; for adoption, surrogacy and fertility matters, Hilka Hollmann is the go-to name.