Avocats – England

Laura Chapman

Laura Chapman is an experienced solicitor specialising in representing individuals whose human rights have been violated by the state and its agents. Her practice focuses on holding public authorities to account through civil claims for compensation, police complaints, and public law challenges. Her cases often engage broader public interest issues and involve historical miscarriages of justice, allegations of serious police corruption and the criminalisation of political dissent. Laura is also an experienced inquest and public inquiries lawyer. She acts for bereaved families of those who have died in state custody or following contact with the state, during inquest proceedings, and is currently acting for clients in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Laura is deeply committed to protecting the fundamental rights of her clients and using the law as a means to help people achieve accountability, justice and compensation, where their rights are infringed.

Hickman & Rose

Laura Clare

Laura Clare is a Senior Associate and private client solicitor, specialising in wills, trusts, estate administration, inheritance tax planning, lasting powers of attorney, and Court of Protection matters. She takes a friendly, hands-on approach, ensuring clients have clarity on their legal requirements and tailored solutions. Laura has experience advising clients with businesses, farming interests, and high-net-worth estates.

Flint Bishop

Laura Clarke

Laura is an Associate within the Dispute Resolution and Litigation department. Laura works on a wide range of dispute matters including supply of goods and services, data privacy, professional negligence, consumer rights and protections and general contractual disputes. Laura’s recent work includes: advising international manufacturers, national retailers and regional distributors in matters relating to consumer rights and protection successfully obtaining urgent injunctive relief for a leading vehicle recovery firm representing a global education provider throughout a variety of complex and cross-border contractual and contested insolvency proceedings. defending a leading car manufacturer against a £17 million multijurisdictional breach of contract claim. Laura joined Shoosmiths as a trainee in 2019, having studied Geography at the University of Southampton before completing her Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course.

Shoosmiths LLP

Laura Clews

Laura has experience in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications in the UK, Europe and worldwide, particularly in the fields of ionic liquids, composite materials, polymer chemistry, solar cells, medical stents and oil and gas technologies. She has also been involved in patent opposition work and has experience in the management of patent portfolios. Laura also has experience in filing and prosecuting registered community designs.

Mathys & Squire LLP

Laura Conduit

Laura is an expert transactional lawyer working on some of the fastest paced and highest value residential property sales and purchases in the Prime and Super Prime London and country house markets. She advises individuals, families and developers and acts for clients buying their first home as well as experienced investors. She also acts as separate representation for lenders on property finance matters. Laura has an excellent track record for delivering quality advice and exchanging transactions under time pressure. Laura’s network spans agents, surveyors, architects, bankers, mortgage brokers and beyond and she curates a team for her clients where needed. Laura has a collaborative style and approaches transactions with a solutions-focussed attitude.

Farrer & Co

Laura Cotzias

Bishop & Sewell LLP

Laura Coyle

Freemans Solicitors

Laura Creasy

Laura joined Weightmans in 2008 and became a Principal Associate in 2020. She handles claims for defendant organisations and their insurers, specialising in the area of EL/PL litigation. Laura has a particular focus on construction claims and those involving logistics clients. She acts for organisations in a number of sectors but particularly in the built environment and logistics sectors for which she is a key handler for a number of global clients. Laura also has experience in handling group litigation and cross border claims.

Weightmans LLP

Laura Dadswell

UK and international tax planning for high-net-worth individuals, with expertise in dealing with UK/US issues; capital tax mitigation and exit planning for owners of SMEs, will and trust drafting and related advice on trustees’ and executors’ powers and duties. Recognised in Private Client Practitioner’s ‘Top 35 Under 35’ list.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Laura Devine

Managing Partner

Laura Devine Immigration

Laura Evans

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Laura Farnsworth

I am a Partner in the Employment team. I joined Lewis Silkin on qualification well over 20 years ago. I advise organisations on a wide range of employment issues, such as negotiated exits, absence management, redundancies, discrimination and family rights. I manage our low cost, fixed fee HR / employment law support service, called rockhopper and our in-house secondment service, called LS In-house. Through these services we provide businesses with high quality and exceptional value employment law support.

Lewis Silkin

Laura Fisher

Partner

KPMG Law

Laura Gabbey-Cristofini

Associate solicitor

Irwin Mitchell

Laura Garlick

Associate

Elkington + Fife LLP

Laura Gathercole

Associate

Briffa

Laura Giles

Legal Director

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Laura Gorman

Laura is a partner in the Oxford real estate team specialising in commercial property. She advises clients across a variety of sectors including education, life sciences, property development, charities and retail. Laura has particular experience in advising both developers and landowners on residential and commercial development schemes, including site assembly, debt and forward funding and onward sales/lettings. She also acts regularly for clients in the science and technology sectors in relation to leasehold premises, particularly start-up and spin-out companies, and assists those acquiring newly built premises. Laura has significant experience acting for charitable clients on property disposals and advising on compliance with the relevant regulatory regime. She is also a charity trustee in a voluntary capacity.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Laura Guest

Senior Associate in the Corporate team.

Ashfords LLP

Laura Guillon

Partner / Head of Leeds

Hall Brown Family Law

Laura Guntrip

Laura Guntrip is a Partner and Head of the Healthcare team. Laura leads the Healthcare Team in advising providers of adult care homes, nursing homes, supported living facilities, independent hospitals, children’s homes and schools, throughout England and Wales, on a range of issues. Laura regularly represents clients in challenging inspection reports and defending enforcement action by regulators such as CQC, CIW or Ofsted. This includes action by the regulator to refuse or vary registration, impose conditions of registration or cancel registration, including appeals to the Care Standards Tribunal and urgent actions before a magistrate. Laura also has defends clients in criminal investigations and prosecutions, by either CQC, HSE, Fire Authority, Environmental Health or the Police. She is experienced in the field of criminal law and is able to represent providers from PACE interviews under caution, through to prosecution. In addition, Laura regularly represents healthcare providers, GPs and others in Coroner’s Inquests, throughout England. Her work also includes local authority or CCG contractual disputes, disputes with residents, Court of Protection cases, safeguarding investigations and community care cases. Laura also has experience of representing clients in relation to professional misconduct hearings or disputing their inclusion on the barred lists; as well as public law judicial review proceedings within the care sector. Laura also has a strong reputation for her regulatory due diligence work which she frequently undertakes for purchasers, vendors or funders, dealing with acquisitions, sales or refinancing of all types of care facilities, including care homes, day schools, children’s homes, independent special schools, fostering agencies, acute medical units and fertility clinics. As a result of her expertise in these niche areas and her excellent reputation as a legal advisor in the sector, Laura is often asked to speak at conferences nationally and regularly writes for sector publications, including Caring Times.

Lester Aldridge LLP

Laura Gusatu

Partner

K J Smith Solicitors

Laura Hallahan

Laura is a Senior Associate in the Family department. Lauraadvises clients in relation to all family law issues arising during cohabitation, in contemplation of marriage and on divorce or dissolution, and issues relating to children. She is frequently praised by colleagues, barristers and clients for her calm and measured manner, fine eye for detail and pragmatic advice. Laura regularly advises clients in disputes regarding the division of finances upon divorce. She endeavours to reduce conflict and resolve these disputes consensually where possible, but also has extensive experience of litigating in the family courts. Many of Laura’s cases involve complex asset structures and an international dimension. She also has experience of dealing with cases involving Sharia family law. A barrister, who recently worked with Laura on a complex financial remedies case, has said: “Laura is fantastic. She is hard working, has an eye for detail and good judgement, making her a real asset to any case she is working on. She is a star already, with a very bright future ahead.” She has expertise in preparing pre- and post-nuptial agreements, particularly with a view to ring-fencing parties’ pre-marital, trust and inherited assets upon marriage. In addition to Laura’s financial practice, she regularly advises on children matters, including disputes regarding contact, residence and relocation. She is adept at dealing with cases where there are allegations of domestic abuse, including allegations of alienation and coercive and controlling behaviour, and where it is necessary to apply for non-molestation and occupation orders. Laura is described as “calm, insightful, super-smart, very personable and well up to the most demanding of children’s cases.”

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Laura Harper

Laura advises both UK resident and non-UK resident/domiciled individuals, families and trustees on a wide variety of UK tax, trust law and international estate planning issues. She has a particular focus on the US and regularly advises on issues concerning planning to be undertaken when moving to or from the UK. She also has extensive experience working on cross-border matters and structuring involving family-owned businesses. She has also developed an in-depth charity law knowledge and regularly advises and presents on the benefits of dual registered charities in the US and the UK, allowing national institutions, family office clients and UHNW individuals to structure their philanthropic projects in the most tax efficient and effective manner. She also has experience of cross border power of attorney and deputyship applications.

Kingsley Napley LLP