England - South East • Private client
DMH Stallard LLP
DMH Stallard LLP‘s multidisciplinary team assists charities, mid and high net worth individuals and professional executors with Inheritance Act Claims, trust disputes, and will validity claims. Jenny Ray in Brighton has a background in personal injury and clinical negligence and leads the team; he joined the practice in April 2022 as a result of a merger with Griffith Smith LLP. Lucienne Westbrook and Cathryn Culverhouse are based in Guildford, the former acts as a court appointed independent executor, while the latter has been described as ’tenacious.’
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Cathryn Culverhouse is excellent. She is very professional, efficient, friendly, and intelligent. She was very quick to understand the issues as she is determined, tenacious, and quietly persistent, she has fought my corner superbly.’
- ‘I found that Cathryn listened to me more than others and that gave me a chance to explain what was happening to me and how it was affecting me.'
- 'Cathryn Culverhouse stood out in her support of me and when discussing the issue and what we needed to do, she was always with clear in her instructions and advice.’
- ‘Cathryn Culverhouse has been my main point of contact in this matter. She is consistently professional, an expert in her advice and helpful. I have never had any difficulty in making contact to discuss matters either by email or phone.’
- ‘I work with Jenny Ray who is a safe pair of hands dealing with probate and private client matters.’
- ‘I greatly value the expert & diligence service provided by Jennifer Ray.’
- ‘Very client-focused and sensitive to their needs and vulnerabilities, which is particularly important in this field.’
- ‘The practice demonstrated great capacity in the administration of a highly complex deceased estate.’
Key clients
- The executors of the estate of JR
Work highlights
- Advised the executors of Mrs JR in relation to a claim that one of the executors and beneficiaries had during the lifetime of the deceased, misappropriated funds using an LPA.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jenny Ray