Claire Withers Family Lawyer

Claire has a strong reputation with over 20 years’ experience as a Family Lawyer. Claire has acted for clients in Hull and East Yorkshire for many years before expanding her practice area to include York, Leeds, Middlesbrough, and acts for clients nationally. She has worked at local, national and specialist firms which has enabled her to gain a real breadth of experience and commercial awareness. Claire predominantly deals with complex high value cases acting for business owners, CEOs, landowners, farmers, entrepreneurs, and senior professionals. She also has considerable experience advising clients in relation to property disputes and associated civil proceedings and acting on behalf of parents in private children disputes including relocation, international cases, and allegations of domestic abuse. Claire works alongside Alicia Baron (Associate Solicitor), Ryan Revell (Trainee Solicitor) and Rania Atkinson (Paralegal) Alicia is a specialist Family Law Solicitor who advises on all aspects of Family Law arising from separation or divorce. Ryan is a Family Law specialist dealing with children matters and domestic abuse, and Rania is a Family Law Paralegal. The team provide a high level of service to clients to achieve the best possible outcome. Claire and the team are part of a national team of Family Law Solicitors, also working with over 300 partners in a multi-disciplinary, full-service practice. gunnercooke is a leading global law firm offering world-class infrastructure to support its partners. The team work from a unique office space in Hull or from the firm’s offices in Leeds, Manchester, and London. The Hull office is in the heart of Hull’s Old Town, adjacent to the Combined Court Centre which is the home of the Family Court. Claire is described in the Legal 500 as “friendly, professional and very calming” and the client feedback in Legal 500 2022 was that she was “professional, approachable, personable, helpful and reassuring”. Claire was also nominated for Chartered Legal Executive of the Year by the prestigious Lexis Nexis Family Awards in 2021.