Avocats – England

Jessica Parker

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Jessica Piper

Senior Associate

Ashtons Legal

Jessica Pitt

Jessica is Head of the firm’s Family Team and the Private Wealth Sector. She provides advice on the consequences of relationship breakdown for married and cohabiting couples, pre-nuptial agreements and wealth protection within a relationship context. Jessica is trained as a collaborative lawyer with a focus on alternative dispute resolution for families. Driven by the desire to solve problems and deliver solutions, particularly for those clients who may have complicated finances, she helps to deliver a fair settlement in an amicable divorce process. She also enjoys working with other professional advisors to provide a seamless service to mutual clients. Jessica joined Foot Anstey as a trainee and is proud to have undertaken her journey to Partner within the firm.

Foot Anstey

Jessica Reid

Partner and Mediator; specialises in divorce, financial and private children cases. She is especially known for her experience in complex high value financial cases, often involving non-disclosure trusts, pensions, and the preparation of pre-nuptial agreements often for international clients.

Dawson Cornwell LLP

Jessica Rush

Jessica Rush is a family law solicitor working with ultra-high-net-worth, high-net-worth and high-profile clients. She advises on all aspects of divorce and financial matters, private law children matters, fertility law, and nuptial agreements and regularly takes on complex cases. Jessica completed her training contract with Howard Kennedy and qualified in September 2020. She is a member of Resolution, the UK's organisation of Family Law professionals promoting a constructive approach to family issues.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Jessica Serrurier

Solicitor

Farani Taylor Solicitors

Jessica Smart

Partner

Kilburn & Strode LLP

Jessica Swift

Jessica qualified as a solicitor in 2015 having completed her training contract with Weightmans and subsequently qualified into the Regulatory department in Liverpool. Since qualification, Jessica has focussed her practice on representing both NHS and private healthcare providers at inquest, as well as NHS Trusts designated Core Participant status in public inquiries. Jessica uses excellent knowledge and understanding of the coronial process to advocate at inquests involving complex medical issues, many involving juries, Article 2 ECHR and/or matters of a sensitive nature; many of which have attracted regional, national and international media attention. Jessica’s practice involves supporting and guiding NHS professionals, including, doctors, nurses and paramedics through the public inquiry or inquest procedure. Jessica has represented at inquests resulting from fatal road traffic collisions and accidents at work. She regularly liaises with medical defence unions before, during and after inquest and has developed a strong professional relationship with many of the Coroners and other legal professionals in the North West coronial jurisdictions. Jessica also often assists with supporting clients with their internal investigation processes and is able to competently advise on conflicts of interest between organisations and their staff members. Jessica acted for over 18 months as in-house solicitor for an NHS healthcare provider, focussing mainly on advising and representing the Trust at inquest whilst supporting their Board of Directors and employees with all manner of inquest related queries. During this time, Jessica was responsible for providing bespoke training to the organisation to assist with preparation for and attendance at inquest proceedings. She has also provided in-house legal support to a number of other NHS clients, advising and guiding them through the inquest procedure. Jessica is also an Assistant Coroner and has held coronial office since June 2022.

Weightmans LLP

Jessica Tresham

Partner

Gowling WLG

Jessica Welch

Jess’s practice focuses on media disputes and reputation protection. Her experience encompasses intellectual property and contractual disputes and working with high profile individuals and corporates on defamation, misuse of private information and data protection claims.

Simkins LLP

Jessica Wilson

Senior Associate

Harris Hagan

Jessica Yu

Jessica provides specialist UK immigration and nationality advice to a range of clients including high-net-worth individuals and corporates. For private clients, Jessica regularly advises on the Investor, Entrepreneur, Start-up/Innovator, Representative of an Overseas Business and Global Talent categories. She also advises on complex family and personal matters involving relocation to the UK, Indefinite Leave to Remain (also known as Permanent Residence or Settlement) and British citizenship. For EEA nationals, this involves advising on the EU Settlement Scheme and their UK immigration permission post-Brexit. For corporates, Jessica supports them through the sponsor licence process and subsequent sponsorship of skilled workers. She also advises UK businesses to ensure that they are compliant with their sponsor licence duties and responsibilities and the law in relation to the prevention of illegal working. Jessica was appointed to the immigration seat of The Law Society Council in October 2021 and sits on The Law Society Immigration Law Committee.

Macfarlanes LLP

Jessie Smith

Jessie is a solicitor in Howard Kennedy's Family team. She specialises in the financial components in the establishment or breakdown of married or unmarried families. She regularly drafts and negotiates complex pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements and has a busy practice in disputes relating to children. She is often involved in fertility law matters and other cases relating to creating families, including surrogacy parental order applications and co-parenting agreements. Jessie prioritises early settlement wherever possible but runs her litigious matters with confidence. Jessie tailors her advice to her clients and works with them to understand their individual needs from an early stage so that they feel supported through what is invariably a stressful and often deeply traumatic time in their lives. When appropriate to do so, Jessie works with external experts including psychotherapists, psychiatrists, accountants and financial advisers to provide a holistic approach to her clients' cases. Additionally, she acts on cases involving addiction and other mental health issues. She cares passionately about wellbeing within the family law system, both in relation to family law professionals and their clients. Jessie has written articles for a number of publications, appeared as a guest on podcasts and she is a member of Resolution. She is also the Secretary and Website Officer of the International Bar Association's Family Law Committee.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Jessie Uppal

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Jessika Thumpston

Shoosmiths LLP

Jiaqi Luo

Solicitor

Lisa's Law Solicitors

Jieun Kim

Jieun Kim is an associate specialised in UK inbound immigration support. She assists clients from a range of industries including financial services, engineering, entertainment, pharmaceuticals and information technology. Jieun has over six years of experience in corporate immigration and provides strategic advice on all aspects of UK immigration law. She has a particular focus on sponsor licence applications, skilled worker sponsorship and compliance matters. Jieun assists a diverse portfolio of British and international clients, working with local businesses and start-ups as well as multinational corporations and household names. She also works with individuals, advising on a broad range of immigration matters within the private client sector.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Jill Briggs

Jill is a Partner in real estate with extensive experience of working in the property sector. She specialises in acting for national housebuilders in all aspects of the acquisition process, in relation to both strategic and immediate land. She regularly deals with a variety of transaction types including conditional contracts, strategic options, promotion agreements, regeneration schemes, multi-party collaboration agreements and overages. Jill advises her clients as to deal structures and assists with heads of terms to ensure the deals progress as smoothly as possible from the outset. She has a collaborative and proactive approach and is known for driving deals forwards and effectively managing difficult situations. Jill’s experience includes: · Advising a consortium of national housebuilders in relation to a development of over 1,100 houses in Oxfordshire including partitioning of the site, day to day development advice, deeds of grant, sales required as a result of planning obligations etc; · Acting for a PLC housebuilder in relation to a large-scale inner-city regeneration project alongside a local authority; · Advising on the acquisition of a site of over 1000 units in West Sussex for a PLC housebuilder and subsequently dealing with ancillary agreements, deeds, overage payments etc to facilitate the on-going development; · Dealing with a 4-phase scheme in the midlands for a national housebuilder in collaboration with a local authority; · Working for a national housebuilder in relation to the acquisition of a 3-phase scheme via a conditional contract with deferred payment, collaboration agreement and complicated planning structure; · Acting for a PLC housebuilder on the acquisition of a 500 unit site on the south coast providing much needed new homes, affordable housing, improvements to infrastructure and local facilities.

Shoosmiths LLP

Jill Briggs

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Jill Carey

Director

Freeths LLP

Jill Dalkin

Weightmans LLP

Jill Greenfield

Partner, Head of Serious Injury Sector

Fieldfisher

Jill Lorimer

Jill is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Financial Services Group. She has an extensive track record in advising firms and individuals facing regulatory and criminal investigations by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Having recently completed a 12 month secondment in the Criminal Prosecutions Team at the FCA, Jill has particular insight into the organisation’s approach to the investigation and prosecution of serious financial offences. Jill has particular experience in advising those facing insider dealing / market abuse and market manipulation allegations and offences under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA). She also advises a number of authorised firms including private banks, wealth management firms and brokerages in respect of supervisory and enforcement issues. More generally, Jill has a broad fraud practice and has involvement in many of the largest Serious Fraud Office investigations. Jill has written widely on cyber-crime and has a particular interest in the regulatory and criminal aspects of crypto-assets and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Chapter contributor to:Kingsley Napley: Serious Fraud, Investigation and Trial (4th edition, Lexis Nexis)Cyber Security: Law and Guidance (Bloomsbury Professional)

Kingsley Napley LLP

Jill Mason

Jill is Head of our Health and Care Sector – a growing and dynamic sector with over 200 lawyers working across a wide range of clients. She has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare law – the law relating to patients. As Head of the Healthcare and Mental Health law team nationally she also advises on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters for clients in both the NHS and private sector. This includes inquests, judicial reviews, Mental Health Act advice, Mental Capacity Act advice, support and training around investigations, risk management, duty of candour, NHS Continuing Healthcare and consultation issues. Jill has also handled clinical negligence claims particularly complex, sensitive and high-value matters for NHS clients. Jill is client relationship partner for many of the sectors key clients. Jill sits on the firm’s Audit Governance and Oversight Panel, is on the Governance Board of the Zero Suicide Alliance and is a Trustee of The Lucy Faithfull Foundation.

Mills & Reeve LLP