Simon Leach

Solicitor - Managing Director

SRA ID: 138783

In 1992, he set up the Family Law Department of his practice and by 1999 was practising exclusively in this area of law. In 2005, he and three of FLG’s Directors formed Nottingham Family Law (as it was then known) and over the next 10 years the organisation expanded into what is now Family Law Group with a number of offices across the region. Simon is a longstanding member of the Law Society’s Children Panel and Advanced Family Law Panel. He is also a Collaborative Lawyer and practising Mediator. During his time as a criminal lawyer he also obtained Higher Rights accreditation. Simon has been involved in a number of notable and reported cases, which have included representing parents and children in cases involving alleged serious non-accidental injury such as shaken baby syndrome, factitious illness and baby fatalities. He has been involved in many cases where children have either remained or have been successfully returned to their parents’ care.