Consilia Legal

Consilia Legal is an award-winning, boutique law firm based in Leeds. The firm specialises in employment and family law and is recognised for giving clients pragmatic and straight-talking advice.

Consilia Legal has grown quickly since it’s establishment in 2014 and has earned a reputation for offering a high level of service to clients.

Types of work undertaken
Family: The family team specialises in all aspects of private family law including divorce/civil partnership dissolution, financial remedy cases, private Children Act matters, pre/post nuptial agreements and TOLATA applications. It is highly experienced in dealing with litigated matters from complex Children Act proceedings, involving fact finding hearings, to high net-worth finance cases with multi-million pound assets, involving business structures, overseas assets, pensions and property portfolios. The team has an excellent reputation in this area and receives referrals from other professional service providers. Experts in high net-worth cases involving an Official Solicitor where the client lacks capacity and receives repeated referrals due to its expertise in dealing with these matters.

The team also offers a range of family mediation services to clients both in person and across the UK through its online mediation service. It is passionate about the benefits that mediation can bring to clients and families. It can also speak directly to children as part of the mediation process. The team has two dedicated websites for mediation clients locally and nationally consiliamediation.co.uk & onlinemediationservice.co.uk

Employment: The employment team is focused on offering a straight-talking, practical and open approach, delivering high quality legal services that utilise modern technology and education initiatives. It specialises in providing day to day support to clients on a number of contentious and non-contentious issues including employment tribunal representation.

The team is highly respected in the market for advising public listed companies, SMEs, owner managed businesses and individuals.  Specialists in dealing with highly contentious exits of top end executives for both company and individual clients and has developed a niche in discrimination and whistleblowing claims.

The team has been increasingly proactive in offering insurance backed employment law retainer packages under its Fortress business protection brand to employer clients. Fortress offers a range of options to prospective clients both with and without an insurance element and has a dedicated website – consiliahrsupport.co.uk

The team also offers a range of workplace mediation services that are available online and in person.