Pictured: Family lawyer Carol Clelland (right) has joined
Challinors' family team headed by Partner Fiona O'Sullivan
(left)
Leading family lawyer Carol Clelland has joined the Birmingham
office of law firm Challinors from Davisons Solicitors.
Prior to Davisons, Carol was Equity Partner and Head of the
family department at Blakemores Birmingham for six years, and
represents the third senior hire by Challinors' family team in as
many months.
With more than fifteen years experience in family law, Carol is
a recognised specialist in child care and international child
abduction cases. She is a member of the Law Society Children Panel,
Family Law Panel and Family Law Advanced Panel. She was with
Blakemores in Birmingham and Leamington for a total of eleven
years, before which she worked at Coventry firm Brindley, Twist
Tafft & James and Wolverhampton's Rees Page.
Fiona O'Sullivan, Partner and head of Challinors' family team,
comments: "Carol is an exceptional family lawyer and child care
specialist, and her expertise, knowledge and skills are a superb
addition to our growing, thriving team in Birmingham and across the
Midlands."
Challinors now has seven fee earners on the Law Society Children
Panel - alongside Carol Clelland are Associate Claire Butterfield,
Richard Gray, Consultants Angela Houston and John Chapple,
Solicitor Fiona Bowen, and Associate in the East Midlands, Pramila
Meghani.
Challinors Family and Child Care teams both scored highly in the
latest edition of the Legal 500 Directory, which awarded the Family
team the highest, First Tier ranking for the third consecutive
year. The team is recognised for its high level of service which
'exceeds expectations', and Fiona O'Sullivan, is recognised for her
'personable, prompt and efficient' attributes and her expertise in
the pension's aspects of financial settlements.
Challinors has five strategically-located offices across the
Midlands in Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Halesowen and
Nottingham. It has a team of over 200, including 17 partners, over
100 fee earners, and teams dedicated to providing specialist legal
services from clinical negligence, criminal, personal injury,
wills, trusts and probate through to corporate, commercial, dispute
resolution, employment and property matters, and mediation
services.The firm's teams are highly regarded and have received top
tier rankings in both the Legal 500 and Chambers UK Directory.