Russell-Cooke LLP offers a bespoke service for its clients, recently implementing the ‘one lawyer model’, which 5 of its solicitors are trained in. Fiona Read is ’very good at difficult, challenging and acrimonious cases’, mediation across the full range of family law, representing domestic and international clients in divorce, children arrangements and property disputes. James Carroll, a ‘go-to’ for couples, family members, business partners and trusts, specialises in advising clients in same-sex relationships, especially those with an international dimension. Kate Hamilton is an expert in providing shuttle, hybrid and solicitor-attended mediation between property owners, barristers, solicitors and clients in the financial sector. Katie Longmate, who joined the firm in January 2024, regularly advises and negotiates prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, similarly to Rachel Donald, who joined in May 2024 from Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP. Donald has expertise in advising on all aspects of family law, including disputes involving neurodivergent children.
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‘Fiona Read has a fine reputation; she is an experienced part-time judge and arbitrator. Fiona is always popular with clients, always willing to offer excellent advice and assistance, and you always feel as if you are working as part of a team with Fiona. Very good at difficult, challenging and acrimonious cases. Speaks with calmness and authority that sets the clients at ease.’
'James Carroll is outstanding. He is clever and effortlessly constructive, and far-sighted.'
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