Leiper Gupta Family Lawyers Ltd (LGFL Ltd)

Divorce and Family Law

Rita Gupta is Co-founder and Managing Director of family law firm LGFL Ltd, serving family law for clients in the Reading and Thames Valley area, across the UK and for international clients involved in UK divorce cases.

As a much-in-demand family lawyer, Rita is known for her pragmatic and empathetic approach combined with strategic and tenacious litigation skills in securing successful outcomes. Praised for her “Rolls Royce service”,clients greatly appreciate that from their very first meeting, Rita tailors her advice to each client’s circumstances and expectations.

“Rita Gupta is a real live-wire, always crackling with new ideas, innovative approaches and fuelled by a deep-felt passion for the welfare of children caught up in separation and divorce. Legal 500 2024 edition

Alongside fellow Director Anne Leiper, Rita has grown LGFL into a highly respected boutique family law firm covering all areas of Family Law. Her energetic and dynamic style attracts clients with all kinds of family law issues, including divorce, finances, cohabitation issues, children, and relationship agreements.

Rita has considerable expertise and experience in dealing with complex financial settlements and always ensures that the interests of minor children are her top priority. She has a formidable reputation for helping separating parents achieve a balanced and realistic settlement in divorce and separation cases involving SEN children, and has created a three part video series on this complex issue on YouTube.

Rita is passionate about reaching out to the wider community via the media in all its forms. She has featured as a family law expert on national TV and radio, including BBC Radio 5 Live with Nicky Campbell, LBC, GB News with Darren McCaffrey and local TV and radio.

“Rita is the driving force behind LGFL's wide-ranging marketing and outreach activity, from blogs addressing key subjects and concerns to thought-provoking and practical articles for both legal and popular press.” Legal 500 2024 edition

Rita is also to be seen and read on social media, in articles for lifestyle magazines, in niche podcasts, and in her Law Society blogs. Rita also writes engaging an informative articles on contemporary family law issues for the LGFL website.. She has also presented videos for trainee lawyers and paralegals online via MBL webinars and on TikTok.

After graduating, Rita trained with IBB solicitors, a large regional practice where she gained a keen interest in Family Law. On qualification, she moved to Pinto Potts solicitors, first meeting and working with Anne Leiper in the Family Law department. Rita quickly developed an expertise in children law and in the areas of domestic violence resolution. Rita then joined Goughs where she specialised in complex children’s cases, becoming a member of the Law Society’s Children panel.

In 2008, she collaborated with Anne Leiper again to jointly form the practice of LGFL LLP (now LGFL Ltd). 15 years on, with fellow Director Anne Leiper, Rita has built up a forward-thinking, dynamic family law firms in southern England.

Rita is a member of the Law Society’s Family Law panel and a member of Resolution. She is passionate about nurturing new legal talent, and heads up the LGFL trainee programme, with two new trainees and a paralegal joining the team in 2023.

Rita was named Family Law Solicitor of the Year in the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2017, and was a finalist in the 2017 Hampshire Venus Awards for Professional of the Year. She was also a Legal 500 UK Recommended Lawyer from 2020 onwards.

Client testimonial

“Rita Gupta has a unique and magnetic energy that inspires confidence. Rita’s input into the wider family law sector, with her articles and interviews, demonstrates her knowledge and passion for her area." The Legal 500 2023 edition

English (native speaker), conversational Hindi and Punjabi

Member of the Law Society’s Family Law panel, member of Resolution

Rita read law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, then returned to her home town to complete her professional training at the Nottingham Law School.

At home, Rita loves travel, fashion, cooking and is involved in a number of local ventures.