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The team at Foot Anstey regularly advises clients on a range of family work, including divorce, cohabitation disputes, children disputes, and financial remedy claims. In particular, their expertise lies in nuptial agreements, as well as divorces involving farms and owner managed businesses. Jessica Pitt – who leads the team – anchors the team’s position in these latter areas of focus. Other key figures include Emily Botham, whom clients regard as ‘skilful and knowledgable, with an extremely high attention to detail.’

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'Emily Botham is hard working, skilful and knowledgable, with an extremely high attention to detail.'
  • ‘The team is good at looking at the needs and wants of the client whilst trying to remain pragmatic in a difficult area. They are excellent at responding promptly and working collaboratively. Compared to other firms, they offer a personalized client-centered service well suited to the area.’

  • ‘Jess is an excellent lawyer in this area - knowledgable, pragmatic and best described as a steel fist in a velvet glove - able to deliver where needed but diplomatic and pragmatic otherwise. A pleasure to work with.’

  • ‘Jessica Pitt and Emily Botham are both highly knowledgable in this area of work. They provide their clients with sensible and practicable advice from the outset and work hard for their clients.’

  • ‘Jess Pitt is excellent and gives her client a really good, prompt service. She understands complex finance cases and is great to deal with. I also really like Georgia Day - she handled a really difficult pre-nup with me and we were able to distill a complex joint aim of our respective clients by working together on the document.'

  • ‘The team provide very pragmatic and sensible advice. They are good to work with on cases and are very capable at providing their clients with the steer they sometimes need to avoid massive dispute.’

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jessica Pitt

Other key lawyers

Emily Botham, Georgia Day, Tanya Dhillon