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Celebrating Our 2024 Chambers & Partners Rankings
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Providing the right support and legal advice is integral to any successful legal profession. For delicate scenarios such as relationship breakdowns and family matters, clients need to feel assured they are working with the best solicitors during such an emotional time.
Chambers and Partners is an independent company which identifies the best law firms and their lawyers, monitors their skills and expertise, ensuring we’re true to the services we offer and the clients we’re helping. To be recognised so highly by them is an incredible achievement as it acknowledges our consistent service and commitment.
Who are Chambers and Partners?
Like any profession, there are regulations and requirements which need to be met to support your expertise and accreditations. As family lawyers, Purcell Solicitors is no different. Chambers and Partners is the definitive mark of excellence across the legal industry. They are the leading professional legal research company that looks into legal departments, law firms and lawyers to create detailed reports on their qualifications and services.
Their extensive reporting consists of interviews, legal capabilities, professional conduct, client services offered, achievements, diligence and presence within a company’s relevant sector. With this information, legal practices are ranked in bands from 1 (highest) to 6 (lowest) against their peers.
A ranking from Chambers and Partners highlights excellence within the industry and provides reassurance to potential clients when choosing who to partner with on personal and sensitive legal matters.
Purcell’s Chamber and Partners Rankings
We’re incredibly proud to share that Purcell Solicitors has received the highest accolade from Chambers and Partners, ranked Band 1 in Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas for 2024. Furthermore, our Managing Director, Pauline Purcell, has also been ranked Band 1, with our two Directors, Mandi Austin and Lisa Buckridge, being ranked Band 2.
What Does This Mean To Us?
The team at Purcell Solicitors work incredibly hard to provide trusted legal advice to all our clients. As well as providing a secure place where you can comfortably discuss your relationship and family disputes, confident your trusted advisers have been independently ranked as one of the best family lawyers.
As a company, to once again be awarded Band 1 from Chambers and Partners confirms our dedication to our profession, services and clients. Chamber and Partners is a highly regarded independent review of law firms within our area, and this achievement is due to the excellence of the entire Purcell team.
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Senior Family Law Partner & Director – SRA No. 258177
Pauline Purcell is the Managing Director and founder of Purcell Solicitors, a specialist family law firm based in Milton Keynes. She qualified as a solicitor and built her early career at Fennemores, a top-100 legal firm in central Milton Keynes, where she became a partner and head of the family department before establishing Purcell Solicitors in 2005.
She has specialised exclusively in family law for over 30 years. Her qualifications span several disciplines: she is a solicitor, a trained mediator, a collaborative lawyer, and a family arbitrator, and she was among the first collaborative lawyers in England. She holds a law degree from the University of Buckingham, where she also lectured on the part-time undergraduate law programme.
Chambers and Partners has ranked Pauline as a Band 1 practitioner for Family/Matrimonial in the Thames Valley for several years. The 2025 Chambers and Partners Guide describes her as “incredibly astute and excels at getting to the heart of the issue,” “robust and frighteningly clever,” and “a rock and massive support” to clients throughout their cases. She is also listed as a Leading Lawyer by Wiselaw.
Her particular expertise lies in high-value financial cases, including those involving business assets, pensions, and complex or international elements. She is a long-standing member of Resolution and is committed to reaching negotiated agreements wherever possible, though she regularly represents clients in court and family arbitration when proceedings become necessary.
Pauline is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA number: 258177). She can be contacted at pauline@purcellsolicitors.co.uk.