Director, Family Law in Partnership

Partner Russell Jones and Walker 1990; Joined Family Law in Partnership 1997. Winner of Resolution's John Cornwell Award 2014 which recognises lawyers who have gone above and beyond the norm in their work to support separating families.

International Academy of Collaborative Professionals; Resolution (board member and accredited specialist and examiner); Family Justice Council (ADR committee); GEMME (child support committee); Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Institute of Family Law Arbitrators; FamilyArbitrator.

James is a director at Family Law in Partnership. He specialises in complex financial issues arising from divorce and separation and non-adversarial and cost effective approaches to divorce including mediation, arbitration and collaborative law. James also has a strong track record of helping clients to achieve excellent outcomes in the Court system. James led Resolution's “Parenting after Parting” inititative to heighten lawyers' awareness of positive co-parenting. James is also the founder of Divorce Diaries, a collection of insights and experiences of former clients going through divorce or separation. He was one of the first lawyers to train as both a collaborative lawyer and a family arbitrator and James is qualified to arbitrate both financial disputes and children matters. As a trained mediator he is also qualified in the commercial model of mediation and direct child consultation.