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Jones Myers has been awarded another Band 1 ranking in Chambers UK 2024 legal guide – just two weeks after retaining its top status in the Legal 500 guide.
Chambers latest edition applauds the niche family law firm as: “a dedicated family team in Leeds that is noted for its ability to handle complicated children’s cases, including matters concerning abuse, abduction and exploitation”.
Highlighting the practice’s expertise in financial remedy proceedings and cases involving shareholder issues, property portfolios and complex pension schemes, it features testimonials from clients who praise the firm’s knowledge and support as ‘exceptional’.
Managing partner Richard Peaker, who heads the Financial Remedies Department, is named as Leading Individual with: “…bags of experience, which means that he knows how to negotiate and manage client expectations.”
Also lauded as ‘exceptional’ is fellow Leading Individual Kate Banerjee, who heads the Children’s Department. The guide says: “Kate Banerjee is the best children law solicitor there is in the North of England. She is enormously experienced and has a fantastic manner and way of dealing with things.”
Partner Nicki Mitchell, a collaborative lawyer and accredited family mediator with extensive expertise in matrimonial finance disputes who heads Jones Mayers York office, is also commended as: “…very pragmatic, sensible and able to come to a positive solution. She is very experienced and ADR focused.”
Said Nicki: “We are proud and delighted to retain our number 1 ranking in both Chambers and Legal 500 for almost three decades, re-enforcing our standing as leaders in our field.
“The acknowledgement is wholly attributable to the commitment of our teams across Leeds, York and Harrogate who lead the way in delivering excellence in family law. Enormous thanks to our valued employees and clients.”
With headquarters in Leeds and offices in Harrogate and York, Jones Myers was among the first family law firms of its kind to be founded in Leeds in 1992.