Top Recommended Family Lawyers

‘It’s about time,’ says James Freeman of the rise in young lawyers in his field, many of whom he’s recently welcomed to Charles Russell Speechlys. ‘The danger is, people get too comfortable and unchallenged and don’t think properly… a little bit of back and forth is good.’ So where does he belong among the old guard and the new wave? ‘Maybe sitting smugly on the fence,’ he laughs. The French speaker, who mostly works on cross-border cases, says being a good lawyer is rarely about personality: ‘It’s fundamentally not about you…you’re there to try to do a job with respect to other people’s lives. It’s about discretion – get it sorted with less blood on the carpet rather than more.’