Kamal Majevadia, who is a full member of ACTAPS, leads the Birmingham offering at Irwin Mitchell. The ‘strong team’ carries out a wide range of high-value and complex litigation for individuals, entrepreneurs, professionals and banks. Other key clients include executors, trustees, charities and beneficiaries. It deftly handles a variety of contentious issues, which often include multi-jurisdictional disputes, as well as farming and family business cases. Senior associate Michelle Chapman deals with a range of contentious wills, trust and estate disputes.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Michelle Chapman – hugely personable, cares enormously and presents as competent and confident.'

  • ‘Irwin Mitchell have a very strong depth in their team nationally, with numerous fee earners who have a strong range of knowledge of contentious trust and probate matters.’

  • ‘Michelle Chapman is an excellent associate solicitor. She has taken on levels of responsibility and management well beyond her years and always provides a diligent service to clients with a view to achieving a pragmatic and cost-efficient solution to disputes.’

  • ‘Michelle Chapman was sensitive to my concerns, highly professional and scrupulous at explaining the issues involved. As a result we have reached a settlement and I am very pleased with the outcome.’

  • ‘Michelle Chapman has given a scrupulous and efficient service. She did not waste time bombarding me with emails. She was clear and to the point; she kept me well informed and she got the result I needed.’

  • ‘This is a strong team that is getting stronger and stronger. Their expansion in the market demonstrates their ambition and their successes. The team is really well balanced which brings an all-rounded approach to helping clients and conducting litigation.’

  • ‘Kam Majevadia is a wonderful lawyer to have on your side. Warm, kind, empathetic and tenacious. He is knowledgeable and strategic and particularly effective at ADR and mediations.'

  • 'Michelle Chapman is really going places! She is an integral part of the team and a very strong lawyer.'

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Kamal Majevadia, Stephanie Kerr

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Michelle Chapman