Lawyers in England

Adam Watson

Legal Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Adam Williams

Partner

DMH Stallard LLP

Adam Wilson

Solicitor

Gordons Partnership 2020 Limited

Adam Witkover

Adam specialises in all aspects of private family law particularly cases for mid to high-net-worth families, whether married or living together, including private law children cases.

Bross Bennett

Adam Woodhouse

Adam is a Senior Associate in the Private Client department. Adam advises individuals, trustees and families on a broad range of tax, trust, estate and succession planning issues. He also works closely with the estate administration team and regularly assists clients with the administration of complex and high net worth estates for both UK-domiciled and non-UK domiciled clients.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Adam Zoubir

Partner

Harcus Parker Limited

Adeeb Chowdhry

Director and Head of Business Immigration

Farani Taylor Solicitors

Adele Ashton

Adele is a defamation and privacy specialist with over 15 years of experience. She advises both claimants and defendants in relation to defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, data protection and reputation management. She also regularly provides guidance in relation to forthcoming publications. Her clients have included private individuals, companies, charities, high profile figures and sportspeople. Recent work highlights include: successfully settling privacy claims for a number of 56 Dean Street patients following the disclosure of information by the sexual health clinic; acting for three individuals in misuse of private information claims arising out of Operation Elveden, an investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments by journalists to police officers and other public officials; acting for PC Toby Rowland in his high profile libel claim against Andrew Mitchell MP in relation to what became known as ‘Plebgate’; representing leading businessman Peter Cruddas in his libel action against The Sunday Times; acting for defendants Carmarthenshire County Council and its chief executive in a libel claim brought by a blogger and a successful counterclaim by the chief executive against the blogger.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Adele Eastman

Adele originally qualified at Farrer & Co, specialising in employment and education law. She was Secretary of the Schools Group and a regular speaker on school (independent sector) issues. Adele then spent four years at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as a Senior Policy Specialist. During this time, she gained extensive experience in the education (state - primary and secondary), child protection and mental health sectors. Adele researched and authored two CSJ policy reports: No Excuses: A Review of Educational Exclusion (published in 2011), and Enough is Enough: A report on child protection and mental health services for children and young people (published in 2014). She was a member of the Independent Review Panel appointed to advise the Department for Education on the allocation of £59M funding for families, children and young people. Following No Excuses, Adele was invited to be a member of the Office of the Children's Commissioner of England's School Exclusions Enquiry Year 2 steering group looking at illegal exclusions. During her research for Enough is Enough, she spent two years on secondment at the charity Kids Company. Having re-joined Farrer & Co, Adele specialises in child protection. She brings wider experience into the team having developed a detailed and robust understanding of education, child protection and mental health issues in the state and voluntary sector, and builds on her prior experience in the independent sector. Adele also offers a broad knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation and frameworks.

Farrer & Co

Adele Harrison

Solicitor

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Adele Martins

Partner and Head of the Employment Department Adele deals with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious issues for a client base ranging from multinational plcs to small companies and private individuals. Adele has extensive experience of transatlantic employment issues and frequently works with foreign companies entering the UK market, drafting contracts, implementing compliance policies and providing HR support. In addition to her employer practice, Adele works extensively with senior executives negotiating contracts and exit packages. Adele sits on the LNTV Employment Legal Expert Panel.

Magrath Sheldrick LLP

Adele Shortman

Adele has extensive quality experience advising, training and representing SME and Corporate business’ on employee relations and all ancillary employment law issues. Her expertise and insight allied to her friendly manner fosters a very good rapport with clients, so she quickly grasps their business requirements, values and culture. She focuses on the key issues. She forensically breaks cases down delivering clear and pragmatic solutions tailored to the needs of your business. She acts for a host of loyal manufacturing and retail brands, blue chip companies and SMEs. Her considerable expertise in the manufacturing and retail sectors, includes assisting them with complex change management programmes, advising, supporting and coaching teams of HR Managers in significant restructures with reputational implications for their business whilst enhancing their brand. Adele is an experienced and persuasive advocate in the Employment Tribunal. She has many successful experiences of judicial and private mediation. Adele regularly leads on bespoke training courses delivered in-company where she is an engaging presenter. Highlights include: Successfully advising, proactively supporting and coaching a team of HR Managers in harmonising and changing terms and conditions of employment of 10,000 employees. The international brand increased weekend working to 3 in 4 weekends. Removal of bonus payments and introduction of living wage foundation pay resulting in increased staff at business critical times and reducing the overall wage bill; Advising and supporting and coaching HR in significant restructure to cut 7500 jobs worldwide and 350 jobs in UK with reputational implications for the international brand resulting in a reduction in wage bill; Successfully managing capability termination of long-standing employee with significant mental health illness and numerous suicide attempts, preventing future grievances and significant liability for disability discrimination; Successfully settling multiple lurid allegations of sex discrimination which had the ability to adversely affect the reputation of a national business and saving approx. £85K in damages; Successfully advising and defending unfair dismissal and sex discrimination claims involving a longstanding employee with significant final salary pension loss saving £100k in damages Successfully advising and defended unfair dismissal claim where an employee refused to vary his working hours in accordance with the contractual flexibility clause, claiming the respondent engineered a gross misconduct conduct issue to exit him from the business. Successfully advising and defended a 6-day ET hearing relating to direct race discrimination, racial harassment and victimisation. The employee had put in a flexible working request (FWR) seeking to deviate from the hybrid working to fully remote. The employee alleged that the failure to grant the FWR was because he was a British Asian and/or that he had previously given evidence in another employee’s race discrimination case, and he had been stopped from attending management meetings. Advising on a redundancy. The HR1 was issued for a 45-day consultation with over 100 employees across the shop floor to be subject to a selection criterion devised for the exercise. Advising on the performance related exit of an employee with ADHD and depression. Recent testimonials: David Richardson - Business Segment :Systems and System Components – Indutrade - ‘We have worked closely with Adele and Weightmans for many years, always with the same great support. Adele works to give sound advice and help to resolve complex issues always giving clear advice. Adele has a great ability to listen to business difficulties to help form strategies to address issues - always with a successful outcome. I am happy to speak individually if that's helpful.’ Chris Partington Beldam Crossley Limited - Indutrade - ‘Adele Shortman and the HR rely team are first class, responding to all our HR needs and requirements, with plain English easy to understand advice, support and recommendations. We have no hesitation in recommending Weightmans to other potential clients as well as utilising additional legal services on offer such as; commercial, property, pensions and intellectual property to name a few. I fully endorse and recommend Weightmans, it’s no surprise I have Adele on speed dial!’ Carole Anderton, HR & SCM Manager, ContiTech UK Ltd Continental AG - ‘However complex a situation I find myself in as a HR Manager, Adele methodically unravels the scenario through thorough questioning and then provides pragmatic tailored guidance in the form of either written or verbal advice. To ensure my understanding and ability to apply the advice provided, Adele includes explanations of the legislation and cases that she has used to formulate the solution and provides templates and other documentation where required. In addition, Adele is proactive in keeping me up to date with any legislative changes that are applicable to our sector of manufacturing, sales and distribution plus any generic changes. I feel as though Adele is part of our business and understands our culture and most definitely works collaboratively with us to limit risks and create best practices.’

Weightmans LLP

Adele Whaley

Partner, Disputes

Greenwoods

Adeline Chapman

Adeline advises trustees, scheme managers and employers on a range of pensions issues, including the interpretation of scheme documentation, member communications and regulatory requirements. She also advises trustees about discretionary decisions and dealing with member complaints. Adeline has been involved in various corporate reorganisation projects, advising either trustees or employers about pension scheme mergers and transfers, scheme closures and the introduction of benefit changes.

Sacker & Partners LLP

Adham Harker

Senior Associate (solicitor)

Brett Wilson

Adnan Hussain

Partner

Tank Jowett Solicitors

Adrian Barnes

Senior Employment Lawyer / consultant

Premier Legal LLP

Adrian Bennett

Adrian Bennett was the Managing Partner of his previous firm and is now a European and UK Patent Attorney within Venner Shipley's Mechanical team. His specialist areas of expertise include fluid mechanics, oil and gas exploration technology, hand-held power tools, engine design, control systems, space technology, aerodynamics and aircraft design. With a long-held natural interest in aerospace and space technology, Adrian began his career as an aeronautical engineer with British Aerospace (BAe) Defence Ltd where he worked on supersonic and hypersonic research, aerodynamic performance of military aircraft and airborne vehicles, and vehicle control modelling. While working at BAe, Adrian also qualified as a pilot with the BAe Flying School and progressed to aerobatics, flying Pitts Special aircraft. In his professional work as a patent attorney, Adrian has extensive experience, over more than twenty-five years, of drafting and prosecuting patent applications at the UK IPO, EPO and around the world for corporate clients and SMEs/start-ups. Adrian advises on IP strategy for both UK-based and overseas clients, and he regularly handles oral proceedings at the EPO. He is highly regarded for his work in leading these proceedings before the Opposition Divisions and the Boards of Appeal. Adrian splits his time between our head office in London and our new office in the UK’s leading science and innovation campus in Harwell, Oxford.

Venner Shipley LLP

Adrian Budgen

Partner Adrian Budgen leads the firm’s Asbestos and Occupational Disease team and is widely recognised as a leading practitioner in this field. In 2026 he was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours in recognition of his contribution to supporting those affected by asbestos-related diseases. With a career spanning more than 35 years, he has focused on representing individuals and families, particularly in cases involving mesothelioma, securing accountability and financial redress in complex and often sensitive circumstances. Adrian has supported hundreds of clients and their families, and has been closely involved in a number of significant cases. These include acting for June Hancock in the Armley environmental asbestos case, which established that mesothelioma can result from environmental exposure to asbestos and enabled others in similar circumstances to bring claims. He has also secured what was, at the time, the highest award for an industrial disease fatal injury claim, totalling £4.37 million. Beyond his casework, Adrian has contributed to broader efforts to raise awareness of asbestos exposure and its long-term impact. He has provided evidence to government inquiries and supported initiatives aimed at the removal of asbestos from public buildings, including schools and hospitals. His work has had particular relevance in communities across Yorkshire and the East Midlands. Adrian has written and lectured extensively on asbestos-related disease and personal injury litigation. He is also a founding trustee of the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund, reflecting his commitment to supporting research and improving outcomes for those affected.

Irwin Mitchell

Adrian Chew

Adrian specialises in advising clients on all issues relating to the enforcement and validity of patents and supplementary protection certificates, including topical issues such as medical use claims, plausibility, antibody functional claims, Article 3 of the SPC Regulation, and the doctrine of equivalents. Adrian also acts for clients in contractual disputes involving patent rights, both before the High Court and in private international arbitrations. In addition to his expertise in English proceedings, Adrian frequently assists clients with the coordination of litigation in other jurisdictions, working with law firms in Europe, Korea, India, China and the Middle East. In particular Adrian advises a top five pharmaceutical company in the enforcement of its worldwide patent portfolio for two of its blockbuster drugs.

Bristows LLP

Adrian Clossick

Partner, Head of Divorce and Family, Leeds and Head of Professional Practices Group Described by Chambers as “phenomenal” and by CityWealth magazine as “one of the most well respected matrimonial finance practitioners in the North”, Adrian is Head of Divorce and Family in our Leeds office and specialises in the resolution of complex financial issues for high net worth individuals. Adrian is Head of our Professional Practices Group due to his considerable expertise in acting for professional clients and their spouses. A significant number of Adrian’s cases involve trusts (both on and offshore), commercial and tax issues, family businesses, inherited wealth, international aspects and the tracing of assets. He has considerable expertise in the negotiation of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements and the treatment of personal injury damages on divorce. Adrian has a particular interest in cohabitation claims, including the property rights of unmarried families. He has commentated in the local and national press on cohabitation issues. He also advises on disputes relating to children, including paternity, residence, international relocation and financial provision.

Stewarts Law LLP

Adrian Crawford

Adrian is a partner in the employment practice. His particular interests include TUPE and outsourcing, and issues arising in the financial services industry, including bonus disputes, regulatory issues and partnership issues. He regularly provides seminars and workshops for clients. Adrian’s work includes acting for a wide range of businesses, including well-known law firms and other professional service firms, banks, commodity and financial futures brokers, hedge funds, and individuals.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Adrian Dagnall

Bevan Brittan LLP

Adrian Denton

Adrian has 10 years’ experience representing his clients in clinical negligence claims. He deals with many types of medical and dental cases, from those of the utmost severity to complex claims of a lesser value. Adrian is noted for his attention to detail and tenacious pursuit of his client’s interests to obtain the best outcome which properly compensates for the results of negligent medical care. He is a lawyer based in Nottingham.

Freeths LLP