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🎙️ Divorce Talks with Irwin Mitchell – Final Episode
We’re ending this special series with a conversation about something that can completely change the divorce experience: lawyers working together, not against each other. 🤝⚖️ Too often divorce is framed as a battle between two sides. But when lawyers know each other, trust each other, and have a history of working constructively together, negotiations can become smoother, faster, and far less emotionally draining for clients.
For this final episode, I’m joined by three leading family law Partners from top City law firms:
✨ Kate Clark, Partner and Head of Family at Mishcon de Reya
✨ Rachel Donald, Partner, mediator and collaborative lawyer at Mills & Reeve
✨ Fran Hipperson, Partner and Head of the London Family Team at Irwin Mitchell
Together, we explore the real value of lawyer collaboration and how it can lead to better outcomes for families going through divorce. In this episode, we discuss:
🔹 How prior professional relationships between lawyers benefit clients
🔹 How trust between legal teams influences negotiations
🔹 What clients can ask to understand whether their lawyer takes a collaborative approach
🔹 Examples where collaboration led to faster, fairer outcomes — and where a lack of it caused unnecessary conflict
💬 Because the best outcomes happen when both sides work towards the same goal.