Partner
Sarah is a Partner in our Family Law team. She works with and has supervisory responsibilities for an exceptional team of skilled family lawyers and legal support staff who share a commitment to providing outstanding service and client care.
When not working, Sarah can usually be found outside, in her wellies or walking boots, gardening, or walking her dog. Sarah also spends her time keeping fit at her weekly ballet and yoga classes and enjoys all things classical: art, literature, music, dance.
Sarah has been practicing law since 1998, initially in London but in the home counties since 2012. Sarah has been fortunate in her career to work in Tier 1 legal teams and feels privileged to regularly work with leading barristers, and other professionals in connection with her role as a family law specialist.
Sarah has a wealth of experience acting for married and non-married clients from all sectors, including the music industry, pharmaceuticals, financial services, business owners and the uniformed services. Sarah has negotiated client-focussed financial settlements for the last 20+ years whether court-led or in in private hearings and arbitrations.
Sarah also assists clients to resolve issues concerning their children, adopting a sensitive approach and striving to ensure amicable solutions where the child’s best interests are always placed front and centre. Strategic and pragmatic, Sarah is ever mindful of the bigger picture whilst recognising that the devil is inevitably in the detail.
Sarah Speed is an outstanding family lawyer who is a joy to work with. She is very bright as well as being a calm and reassuring presence for her clients. Her down-to-earth and pragmatic advice means that she is not distracted in a case from the issues that matter. She is no pushover, and her clients can rest easy in the knowledge that she will skillfully argue their case for them when necessary, but also find a compromise when contested litigation is not the best way forward for her client.
I am not familiar with the team, but rather with one of the partners, Sarah Speed. However, it seems to me that the breadth of work that the firm covers provides good cross-pollination of legal expertise across various sectors, which may be enormously helpful in some cases.
Sarah and her team have made this difficult time much better by the way they dealt with my case. The process was straightforward and i would use Sarah again without hesitation.
Sarah was very thorough, extremely knowledgeable but remained personable throughout making me feel at ease when needed.
Thank you again for all your help with what I have been through over the last year and a half. You gave me the confidence and belief to get through what has been the toughest time in my life. (You’ve got this) Thank you.