Irwin Mitchell is active both locally and nationally for a range of high-net-worth clients facing highly complex cases. Anna Chenoweth and Helen Revill-Wyles jointly lead the team. Revill-Wyles, who has more than 30 years’ experience, is regularly active on nuptial and cohabitation agreements, while Chenoweth is noted for her work for international clients, and expertise in cases involving religious and cultural aspects of divorce and family law. Sarah Al-Jourani contributes aptitude in Sharia family law, James Henshall advises on children cases, and April Wood is dual qualified in England & Wales and Australia.
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- They are top-quality lawyers and have good prices.
- The team is brilliant with depth in experience and expertise across all areas of family law.
- Anna Chenoweth is superb: technically excellent, sublimely strategic, and commercially astute. Combined with seemingly boundless stamina, she will go to the ends of the earth to achieve the best for her clients. Helen Revell-Wylie is also brilliant.
- Helen Revill - she is a highly experienced solicitor with a complete grasp of her cases; James Henshall - he is a very talented lawyer with an excellent understanding of his client's needs; Clodie Alott - she is a very talented young lawyer - one to watch.
- Irwin Mitchell is a national firm with all of the amenities one would expect from such a large and well-respected firm. The strength of the firm lies in its considerable resources, best technology, top-of-the-line premises, and its ability to attract the very brightest and best people across sites and in numbers that permit the best possible quality of service and accommodation of client needs.
- They have a breadth and depth of expertise that is rare. They are also a delightful team to work with.
- Anna Chenoweth is the complete package. Clever, calm, and compassionate, she inspires confidence in clients and is always a safe pair of hands.
- Anna Chenoweth is exemplary. She has a razor-sharp intellect which she couples with a cool head - she is every client's dream lawyer.
- The team is made up of excellent lawyers but knows how to balance that with professional calm and consideration.
Lawyers
Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Sarah Al-Jourani
Practice head
Anna Chenoweth; Helen Revill-Wyles
Other key lawyers
James Henshall; April Wood; Sarah Al-Jourani