Lawyers in England

Rachel James

Rachel is a Partner and experienced lawyer in our private client team. She helps clients to plan for their futures and navigate life’s challenges, offering specialist advice on all aspects of private client law including Wills, inheritance tax, succession and estate planning, the creation and administration of trusts, estate administrations, Lasting Powers of Attorney and mental capacity issues. Rachel acts for a wide range of private clients including high-net-worth individuals, families, business clients and those with complex family circumstances. A member of our sports sector team, Rachel also acts for professional athletes, advising them on estate planning. She acts as professional Trustee and Attorney on a number of matters and has extensive experience in dealing with issues affecting older and vulnerable clients. With a solid background in non-contentious work, Rachel is experienced in dealing with complex estate administrations. She deals with a variety of high-value estates, many of which involve a cross-border element. Acknowledging that every client is unique, Rachel offers bespoke advice tailored to the specific needs of the individuals and families she works with. She takes a sensitive and empathetic approach to provide the right solutions for her clients.

Brabners LLP

Rachel Kneale

Rachel leads Weightmans' clinical claims team in London and nationally with Richard Jolly and Deborah Bannister. She is Weightmans' client liaison partner for NHS Resolution and has worked for NHSR (previously NHSLA) since 1997. Rachel is recognised as a leading figure in clinical negligence, ranked by Chambers and Partners. She specialises in the highest value clinical negligence claims, including obstetric, neurological and other catastrophic injuries. She has particular expertise on quantum issues and has settled a large number of cases involving periodical payments. Rachel also deals group claims in relation to breast screening, Covid and surgical claims. Rachel acts for a number of NHS trusts and organisations across the country, advising and defending on claims against them and as client partner co-ordinates and leads the team of lawyers acting across related areas of the law. Rachel is committed to patient safety and sharing learning from claims through data analysis and insights, as well as training.

Weightmans LLP

Rachel Knight

Solicitor

Curzon Green Solicitors

Rachel Lemon

Rachel is an experienced solicitor and accredited mediator specialising in family law. She advises on all elements of relationship breakdown including divorce, separation and the associated financial and child arrangements. Rachel deals with complex financial disputes between couples where there are mid- to high-value assets involved. She is also skilled at dealing with disputes relating to children both within and outside of the court process. She has had success in the High Court particularly with applications to remove children from this jurisdiction. As well as her work as a solicitor, Rachel also has a well-established mediation practice and holds accredited status with the Family Mediation Council. She has mediated high-conflict and complex financial and children cases. Rachel deeply believes in the benefits of dealing with family disputes in this way where possible. Co-creator of her own modern family, Rachel has a specialism in advising LGBTQ+ clients on relationship breakdown and on the legal implications of modern family building with the use of donors or surrogates.

Keystone Law

Rachel Lewis

Rachel provides advice across a full spectrum of employment issues to a diverse range of clients. She acts both for employers and for senior employees. Rachel has run significant employment tribunal claims involving complex discrimination and whistleblowing issues, and also has experience of mediation as an alternative to litigation. She has particular expertise in large scale redundancy exercises and restructurings, and has a strong pedigree in public sector work. She has won praise from clients and legal directories for her pragmatism and the commerciality of her approach, focusing on finding effective solutions to seemingly intractable problems. This fits with her track record of building up strong, long term working relationships with her clients' HR and management teams, enabling her to understand and add value to their business. Rachel also writes and lectures regularly on employment law issues.

Farrer & Co

Rachel Lim

Rachel is a Partner within the family team. She qualified in 2003 and is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Children Cases and Complex (middle/high value) financial remedy cases. Rachel specialises exclusively in family law and embraces the varied work this area of law has to offer. She has a wealth of experience in advising clients on all aspects of relationship breakdown. In particular, Rachel has expertise in the following areas: -Divorce; -Matrimonial finance – complex high value cases involving companies, trusts, pension sharing, overseas assets and inherited wealth; -Children Act applications including Child Arrangements Orders, Specific Issue, Prohibited Steps and Removal from the Jurisdiction; -Cohabitees disputes; -Schedule 1 applications; -Variation of maintenance; -Prenuptial/separation agreements; and -Enforcement. Rachel has a particular interest in modern family law issues and recognises that over the last few decades family structures have changed dramatically. Consequently, she welcomes new enquiries from individuals in same sex relationships and those considering surrogacy or co-parenting agreements. Rachel enjoys working closely with clients to help them negotiate the legal and other issues which flow from relationship breakdown. Rachel is known for her empathetic nature and approachable manner which readily sets clients at ease. She is always meticulously prepared and adopts a sensible and pragmatic approach to all of her cases. She gains considerable satisfaction in achieving a good outcome for her clients. Rachel is recognised as a Next Generation Partner by the Legal 500 having previously been singled out as a Rising Star every year from 2019. She has also been ranked as “Up and Coming” by Chambers and Partners for 2024 and 2025. She is described as “extremely personable” and has been praised for her "confidence, clarity and professionalism." Rachel is part of the winning team named Family Law Firm of the Year at the LexisNexis Family Law Awards.

Weightmans LLP

Rachel Lyne

Rachel has a wealth of experience advising across a range of regulatory issues covering investigations and enforcement action brought by the Health & Safety Executive, the Police, Food Standards Agency, Environmental Health Officers, the Environment Agency and Fire Authorities. Rachel’s contentious practice means she has gained significant experience in advising clients on a range of issues including: corporate manslaughter, health and safety, environmental offences (water pollution, waste, packaging, and noise, odour and light pollution, food safety including hygiene and labelling), fire safety, trading standards, consumer protection and licensing. She advises across the sectors with particular expertise in advising the: construction and engineering, retail, manufacturing , logistics, education and health. Rachel has experience of advising at the most senior level within an organisations dealing with the most urgent types of regulatory investigations including fatal accidents and has extensive advocacy experience in both the criminal and coroner courts. As well as advising corporate clients, partnerships and individuals facing investigations and enforcement she also provides non-contentious advice on range of regulatory issues including: post Brexit compliance requirements, packaging and waste regulations, crisis response protocols and supporting training, compliance requirements for product launches including tech products, medical devices regulations and bespoke training on a range of regulatory issues. Rachel also has a significant public inquiries practice and is currently instructed to represent Core Participants in the Manchester Arena and Grenfell.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Rachel Mason

Solicitor - Crime

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Rachel Mathieson

Rachel is a Partner in the Employment team at Bates Wells, and she advises household name companies, charities, partnerships and purpose driven businesses to senior executives. This work includes complex discrimination and whistleblowing matters, worker status issues, handling breach of restrictive covenants including enforcement action and managing boardroom disputes. Rachel also advises senior executives in the financial sector on new contracts including bonus provisions as well as negotiating favourable exit packages.

Bates Wells

Rachel McGee

Associate Rachel is an associate working across all areas of Astraea’s commercial dispute resolution practice. Since joining the firm, Rachel has formed a key part of our asset recovery and enforcement team. She has a particular interest in international arbitration and has worked as part of the team representing foreign investors in the enforcement of an SCC arbitral award against a sovereign state. Rachel trained at Astraea, qualifying as a solicitor in 2024 through the SQE route. Rachel has a degree in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Liverpool and a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) from BPP University.

Astraea

Rachel McKillop-Wilkin

Partner

Birketts LLP

Rachel Mills

Rachel is a Senior Associate in the Employment law team and is experienced in contentious and non-contentious matters, for both individuals and companies. Rachel advises a wide range of sectors in all aspects of employment law, including general HR advisory matters such as redundancies, grievances, disciplinaries and performance-related issues through to Tribunal claims. This includes claims such as unfair dismissal, whistleblowing, discrimination and contractual issues. She regularly assists the Corporate team in relation to TUPE advice. Rachel provides training, seminars and case law updates for her clients on a regular basis. Rachel is regularly called upon by her clients to provide pragmatic and commercial solutions to workplace disputes. She regularly provides advice on termination procedures, being mindful of any subsequent litigation that may follow. She frequently drafts or advises upon Settlement Agreements where an expedient, commercial settlement is a more favourable outcome to the parties. Dealing with breaches of contracts in respect of restraint of trade or defending Tribunal claims is also part of Rachel’s vast repertoire in this area.

Geldards LLP

Rachel Mumby

Rachel is a patent litigator with over ten years’ experience in advising clients across a broad range of subject matters, from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to areas as diverse as mobile apps, glass fibres and beer dispensing technology. She has a particular interest in the chemical and life sciences sector due to her background in chemistry. Rachel has experience of obtaining interim injunctions, advising on complex damages matters and supporting EPO oppositions, as well as providing strategic patent opinions. In addition to her practice in English patent litigation, Rachel has extensive experience in the co-ordination of IP litigation relating to global pharmaceutical products. This involves managing litigation in a range of jurisdictions and she therefore regularly works closely with lawyers elsewhere in Europe and the USA. Rachel spent seven months on secondment to the patent litigation team of a US biopharmaceutical company where she gained a first-hand appreciation of life as “the client” and a valuable insight into how best to provide good client service and useful, commercial advice. Rachel co-ordinates a team of writers at Bristows for the EPLAW patent blog.

Bristows LLP

Rachel Newman

Bevan Brittan LLP

Rachel Nicholl

Director, Solicitor, Collaborative Lawyer

Family Law Partners

Rachel OConnell

Partner at Farore Law

Farore Law

Rachel Orgill-Harris

Rachel is a Partner in the Banking Team. She advises on a range of financial arrangements, including public bond issues, private placements, loan facilities, intra-group funding agreements, facility restructurings, group re-financings and interest rate derivatives. Rachel’s primary specialism is advising issuers on multi-million pound public bond issues and bond programmes and additionally, she often acts for clients on their retained bond sales and EMTN programme updates. Rachel also has significant experience in merger consents and refinancing having acted on the Southern Housing and Notting Hill Genesis amalgamations, amongst others. Rachel also advises clients on anti-money laundering compliance.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Rachel Oxley

Partner, Patent Attorney

Mewburn Ellis LLP

Rachel O’Connor

I am a Partner in the Agriculture team. I advise on a broad spectrum of rural matters including property disputes, partnership disputes, landlord and tenant disputes, professional negligence, and contractual disputes. My expertise includes Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 tenancies; in particular, I advise and act in connection with succession matters. I also have a focus on regenerative agriculture and technology and innovation which aims to tackle food security issues and the environmental impact of our food production. In recognition of my contribution to and spearheading of the Michelmores’ Sustainable Agriculture practice, I was named in The Lawyer Hot 100 for 2020. My fascination with how insects could provide many of the solutions to the challenges in our food system has led to the development of a niche expertise in the law relating to insects as feed and food. I am one of the very few legal experts in this area and I led the team at Michelmores that advised on the legislative aspects of the WWF Roadmap to Accelerating Insect Protein in UK Feeds The_future_of_feed_July_2021.pdf (wwf.org.uk) I am very privileged to form part of the organising panel for the UK’s annual Insects as Food and Feed Conference, in association with the Royal Entomological Society and ADAS. I am a member of the Agricultural Law Association and the Property Litigation Association, and regularly lecture on agricultural and environmental issues. Expertise Agriculture Natural Capital Natural Capital for Development Natural Capital for Funders & Investors Natural Capital for Land Managers Professional Negligence Sustainable Agriculture & Agri-Tech Sustainable Economy Rachel O'Connor - Partner - Agriculture | Michelmores

Michelmores LLP

Rachel Parkin

Education (Employment) Partner

HCR Law

Rachel Pearse

Partner

gunnercooke LLP

Rachel Pennell

Principal Associate

Gowling WLG

Rachel Quickenden

Senior Consultant

Constantine Law Limited

Rachel Rigg

Senior Associate

Fieldfisher