Levelling With

Getting married and wondering if you should be doing more to protect your assets?

Tom Quinn, Partner in Birketts' Family Team, joins our host Florence to discuss what a prenup is, what you can cover, who needs one, the sticking points that could make them worthless, and more.

Give it a listen now and let us know what you think.

This Week's Guest: Tom Quinn

Tom Quinn is a Partner in the Birketts Family Team and heads up the London Family Department. He advises clients on all issues resulting from the breakdown of a marriage, civil partnership, or co-habitation, as well as pre and post-nuptial agreements and co-habitation agreements. Tom has significant experience in dealing with complex and high-value financial disputes (from the low millions to hundreds of millions), often involving trusts, and jurisdictional issues.

Tom was named as a Recommended Family Lawyer 2023 by Spear’s 500.

Your Host: Florence Paul

Florence Paul is a Solicitor who works in Regulatory and Corporate Defence. She works on a range of private criminal defence matters, health and safety regulatory cases, and white-collar investigations, assisting also with transport and logistics matters including road transport regulation and operator licensing. 

Get the inside scoop on navigating the home buying process as a first timer.

Conveyancer Shibli Begum spoke to Florence Paul about getting your finances straight, the key legal stages of a purchase, where delays happen, and relationship considerations when purchasing property with a partner. Tune in to this episode to pick up tips from an expert on using reputable professionals, getting essential property surveys and more, to ensure your first home purchase goes smoothly.

Whether you're just starting to think about buying or are already knee-deep in the process, this info-packed episode is essential listening for all first time homebuyers.

This Week's Guest: Shibli Begum

Shibli Begum is an Associate in our Residential Property team at Birketts. She handles all types of residential conveyancing matters and advises on a variety of transactions. Her experience covers dealing with freehold and leasehold transactions, transfers of equity, lease extensions, first registrations new build properties and re-mortgages. Shibli also has experience dealing with shared ownership properties and Help To Buy transactions

Your Host: Florence Paul

Florence Paul is a Solicitor who works in Regulatory and Corporate Defence. She works on a range of private criminal defence matters, health and safety regulatory cases, and white-collar investigations, assisting also with transport and logistics matters including road transport regulation and operator licensing. 

One in five couples in England and Wales are cohabitating, making it the fastest growing family type. Despite this fact, the current law surrounding cohabiting couples is a nightmare to navigate and can lead to big headaches if the relationship breaks down. While married couples have a wide range of legal protections in regard to finances, property and children, cohabiting couples are largely unprotected in all of these areas.

The law needs urgent reform to correct this unfair situation. Francesca Skakel and Florence Paul discuss what could be done and how.

This Week's Guest: Francesca Skakel

Francesca is a Family Lawyer and is devoted to providing empathy and integrity in client relations. She provides advice on a wide range of family matters, from nuptial and cohabitation agreements, through to relationship breakdown and finding a resolution for issues arising in relation to finances, children and the necessity for any protective injunction orders.

Francesca’s reputation has earned her status as a Recommended Lawyer in 2023 Legal 500 rankings. As a member of Resolution, Francesca endeavours to promote an amicable and constructive approach wherever possible.

Your Host: Florence Paul

Florence Paul is a Solicitor who works in Regulatory and Corporate Defence. She works on a range of private criminal defence matters, health and safety regulatory cases, and white-collar investigations, assisting also with transport and logistics matters including road transport regulation and operator licensing. 

Social media platforms can change at lightning speed, which can make regulation of social media a difficult process. The Online Safety Bill is the first attempt in the UK to provide some regulation around this industry and protect those in society who may be vulnerable on these platforms. Maria Peyman and Francesca Reason discuss this bill and how it may be implemented.

Public Inquiries are an important part of the UK's legal landscape and currently a large part of public conversation. In this episode of Levelling With, Francesca Reason and Daniel Irving explain the process of a Public Inquiry and how individuals are involved in an inquiry. 

Everyone is talking about the 'Four Day Week', but how exactly does it work? Catherine Hodds and Jennifer Leeder came together to discuss the recent pilot of this working model and what this may mean for working life in the future...

What is a ‘good divorce’? Join Partner, Tom Quinn, and Legal Director, Juliet Harvey as they discuss how divorcing couples can navigate the divorce process and ensure fair agreements are made in a constructive legal setting. They cover perceptions of divorce and the divorce process, out-of-court solutions, and what makes a good divorce lawyer. 

In the first episode of the series, Mark Pinder, Lead Partner in our International Team, and Sacha Wooldridge, a Senior Associate specialising in immigration law, discuss the ins and outs of cross border business today. They cover the impact of Brexit and the pandemic, the UK's policy on immigration and what makes the UK so attractive to global business.