‘Gold standard firm’ Rayden Solicitors leverages its network of offices across St Albans, Berkhamsted, Beaconsfield, Bishop’s Stortford, and Harpenden, and is often praised for handling matters with ’skill and sensitivity’. ‘Extraordinary’ founder and practice head Katherine Rayden works out of St Albans, and is often instructed by high profile clients, acting in international child disputes. In Berkhamsted, Emily Watson is a qualified children arbitrator who is noted for her ’calm and measured' approach. Rupinder Rai co-heads the Beaconsfield group, specialising in financial matters and police and military pensions. The Harpenden office is led by Paula Butterworth, who regularly assists clients with divorce related business restructuring.
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‘A gold standard firm where the leader of the firm, Katherine Rayden has built a superb team across offices based on maintaining a very high quality of solicitors and a universally good service to clients.'
‘Rosalind Fitzgerald is a great lawyer. She can handle both complex finance work and also the cross-over with some cases into civil work such as TOLATA or when a civil discipline us required in intervenor's cases.’
‘Katherine Rayden has set up a formidable team of family lawyers. Her own determination to provide the best possible service permeates the entire practice and I do not think there is a weak link amongst them. The decision to create a specialist family firm has really paid off and however esoteric the issue, Raydens is able to address with skill and sensitivity.’
‘High quality work and a team focus. This is a happy and committed team with intellect and pragmatism a key strength at all levels. They are not afraid to explore all the options for their clients and readily grapple with all the issues in a case from all angles to achieve the best results for their clients. They are not averse to creative solutions - in short they are first class lawyers.'
‘Emily Watson is calm and measured in her approach, carefully negotiating the need to be an independent arbitrator whilst also working directly with both parties' representatives to ensure that the case could be determined in the extremely short timescales provided.’
‘Rayden Solicitors has a superb team with a vast wealth of experience across all areas of family law. They are the go to firm for high net worth and complex financial remedies cases in London and surrounding counties. Katherine Rayden has a deserved reputation as the doyenne of family law and she recruits first rate colleagues to bolster the firm's excellent reputation.’
‘Katherine Rayden is extraordinary. She is admired throughout the profession by judges and colleagues. She leaves no stone unturned in terms of fighting for her clients' best interests.'
‘Marc Etherington is very kind and patient as well as very thorough.’
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Katherine Rayden, Paula Butterworth, Emily Watson, Rupinder Rai, Robert Micklem, Rosalind Fitzgerald, Abby Westell