Mills & Reeve LLP

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

• ‘The Leeds team is good combination of great experience and younger fresh enthusiasm both of which are well combined to provide excellent advice and support to clients.’

• ‘Claudia Gilham - she is committed to her clients in a way that makes them feel completely supported but which does not lose sight of giving them sensible and pragmatic advice. She thinks through every case in detail and has views about strategy in the long and short that she will debate with counsel and partners to ensure that no stone is left unturned in order to get the best outcome for her client.'

• 'Ellen Wilkinson is in the early stages of her career and is showing great promise in her ability to analyse cases and give clear advice to clients. She is one to watch.’

• ‘An excellent stand-out team who regularly deal with the most difficult of cases’

• ‘Claudia Gilham and Ellen Wilkinson are both leaders in their field - both able to identify what really matters in a case and what will ensure the best outcome for the client.'

• ‘Philip Way is a stand-out lawyer, both in terms of technical knowledge, which is second to none, and also his manner - calm, unflappable and measured. What Philip does not know about pensions on divorce is not worth knowing. He co-chairs the IAFL Pensions Committee and chairs the Legal Working Group of the Pensions Advisory Group.’

• ‘Claudia Gilham and Philip Way are brilliant. Excellent judgment, commitment to clients, excellent service.’

• ‘My principal experience is with Philip Way, who is a superb lawyer, and an extremely kind man - a very important quality in a matrimonial solicitor. I have recommended him on a number of occasions.’

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Philip Way

Hall of fameMills & Reeve LLP

Work includes advising a wide range of individuals with complex financial and personal arrangements in relation to divorce; preparing pre-marital contracts; and advising trustees and beneficiaries as to the implications for them of divorce. Has extensive experience acting for a wide range of individuals in relation to the issues that arise on divorce and family breakdown. Acts for an equal number of husbands and wives. Clients or their spouses are usually either successful business people or professional people. Philip is able to represent clients in traditional court-based proceedings and is also an experienced Collaborative Family Lawyer and Mediator.

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Claudia Gilham

Mills & Reeve LLP

Principal Associate Expertise: Advising on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown, commonly on complex cases involving business assets, farms, trusts and pensions Emotive and technically complex children work including those including domestic abuse, substance misuse and relocation I am also a Consultant for Safe Lives providing training to solicitors, barristers and mediators on the impact of domestic abuse