Birketts LLP acts for a diverse client base including high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, national charities, landed estates, agricultural clients and family businesses. The firm opened its Bristol office in November 2024 and has since recruited Barny Croft from Ashfords LLP in June 2025. Croft specialises in contentious trusts and probate, regularly representing executors and trustees in high-value and sensitive disputes.
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- I feel the broad charity-based team gives such excellent backing to the contentious offering in addition to a really strong team of individuals.
- Barny Croft - a first-rate lawyer in this field.
- National presence, top-notch lawyers in this field.
- Barny Croft leads the team and is easy to work with. Clients like him, and his approach is practical and geared towards client outcomes.
- Birketts is a fantastic - and growing - team with a good market presence. They deal with all manner of contentious trusts and probate claims across a variety of values. The team is approachable and user-friendly.
- Barny Croft is an excellent tactical brain who sees the litigation from a bird's-eye perspective and gives his clients great advice. He finds solutions to the most intractable problems.
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