Month: October 2024

Levison Meltzer Pigott LLP (LMP) and all five  partners Jeremy Levison, Simon Pigott, Alison Hayes, Kate Stovold and Benjamin Stowe, together with most senior lawyer Lucy Hoare, are ranked in the recently launched Chambers UK Guide 2025 for Family/Matrimonial Finance.

With thanks to the efforts of the entire LMP team, the firm is included in the elite Ultra High Net Worth rankings table which identifies the leading professional advisers to the Private Wealth market in the UK.

LMP’s founding partners Jeremy and Simon are also recognised in this top-ranking table with Jeremy ranked as a Senior Statesman and Simon in Band 1.

Kate and Ben have emerged from the “Up and Coming” tables and now appear alongside Alison in the main rankings for the complementary Family/Matrimonial Finance: High Net Worth tables. Lucy, for the third year running, is listed as one of “Associates to watch”; one of only three recognised this year.

Managing Partner Simon also appears in the Spotlight table for Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR, this recognising his expertise in Mediation.

The Chambers UK Guide, which has been going for over 30 years, has featured LMP since its inception. In ranking the leading lawyers and law firms specialising in advising HNW clients, the Guide also features feedback from clients and peers.

This year’s Guide includes the following testimonials:

Firm
“Levison Meltzer Pigott are very able and experienced in matrimonial finance work as well as being empathetic to their clients.”
“Levison Meltzer Pigott have a well-deserved reputation in handling complex and sophisticated matters.”
“Levison Meltzer Pigott is a boutique firm of solicitors who are highly specialised in resolving and litigating complex financial remedy claims.”

Individual Lawyer commentary includes:

Simon Pigott:
“Simon is extremely personable and able to get unreasonable clients to change course.”
“Simon has a real command of the room, and his clients really value and trust him.”
“Simon is a go-to mediator for difficult cases. He’s calm, measured, authoritative and clients like him. He’s the go-to mediator for complex financial matters.”

 Jeremy Levison:
“Jeremy’s talent is superlative. He has enormous charm and magnetism with his clients.”
“Jeremy is quality, fabulous, a real gentleman and really knowledgeable.”

Alison Hayes:
“Alison Hayes is excellent.”

Kate Stovold:
“Kate is a future superstar partner. She is client-focused and exceedingly diligent.”
“Kate is extremely efficient, conscientious and 100% reliable.”
“Kate is a strong and personable lawyer who has her client’s best interests at the forefront of her mind.”

Benjamin Stowe:
“Ben is a younger partner who is making a name for himself.”

Lucy Hoare:
“Lucy is an astute, quick thinker who is invaluable to the team.”
“Lucy is excellent and all over the detail.”
“Lucy is a sound lawyer who has got a lot of experience.”

Levison Meltzer Pigott (LMP) has once again been recognised within eprivateclient’s ‘Top Family Law Firms’, the detailed annual guide to the leading law firms providing family law advice in the UK.

Now in its ninth year, the 2024 eprivateclient Top Family Law Firms features 74 firms in total. Since 2021, the analysis has been divided between two tables: those firms considered “full service” and those which are “boutique” with an almost 100% focus on family law.

Twenty-seven firms feature in the Boutique listings (up from 25 last year), with seven in Tier I, nine in Tier II and eleven in Tier III. Although now a much smaller table than in previous years, LMP has maintained its Tier I recognition in 2024, a leading position the firm held even before the table was split between full service and boutique four years ago.

Simon Pigott, LMP’s Managing Partner, says of this latest accolade: “We founded LMP in 1998 to be “boutique”; to offer a more personal and bespoke family law service than that usually allowed by the policies and processes of the larger full-service firms. For over 26 years now we have adhered to our founding principles and our “partner-led”, “client -focused” ethos. This continued recognition by eprivateclient recognition of LMP as a top tier family law firm is a credit to the LMP team as a whole and we are grateful to each individual member for playing their part in this ongoing success.”

The 2024 eprivateclient Top Family Law Firm rankings are based on a survey of over 100 firms in the UK. Where data was not provided, publisher’s estimates were made, which are clearly labelled on the rankings.

Eprivateclient is a leading website and news service for private client practitioners. Click here to read the boutique firms’ table. If a subscriber to eprivateclient, you can access the full article here.

The Legal 500, the annual legal research directory, has just published its 2025 guide and the boutique family law firm Levison Meltzer Pigott (LMP) is ranked once again in the second highest banding for Family. Simon Pigott is also one of only seven lawyers recognised as “Hall of Fame” for Family Mediation; the firm is also ranked.

Under ‘Family’, Simon Pigott and Jeremy Levison continue to be listed in the elite ‘Hall of Fame’ whilst partners Kate Stovold and Benjamin Stowe are once again recognised as ‘Next Generation Partners’. Managing Partner, Simon, is also delighted that lawyers Lucy Hoare and Natasha Methven are deservedly highlighted with positive testimonial commentary.

LMP is described as a ‘a small but perfectly formed boutique firm in central London’, which is ’known for the quality of its partners and associates and punching above its weight‘. 

Other published testimonials include:

• ‘They have a team of extremely experienced, empathetic and punchy solicitors, who drive a hard bargain in negotiations with a keen eye to the likely outcome at a final hearing.’
• ‘Levison Meltzer Pigott is the epitome of a brilliant boutique firm. Under the guidance of Jeremy Levison and Simon Pigott, the firm has a wonderful stable of brilliant partners and juniors, all of whom work hard to achieve brilliant results.’

• ‘LMP are a small but talented team. They have some great cases and are able to offer the full range of process options from mediation to some truly exceptional litigation.’
• ‘The team are responsive and personable.’

Individual testimonials feature:

• ‘Jeremy Levison and Simon Pigott are two titans of family law. Their experience is almost unmatched in the industry and they are so good at what they do.’
• ‘Simon Pigott is an exceptional individual. He has been around long enough to know all of the tricks of the game. He is a first-rate litigator but has the rare talent of being able to move effortlessly into the role of mediator and peacemaker. He has some of the best cases in both.’
• ‘Kate Stovold is a partner who punches well above her weight in terms of the quality of work she does and the way she deals with her cases. She is shrewd, has great tactical instincts but is compassionate and always striving for the best for her clients.’
• ‘Benjamin Stowe is tenacious, hungry and unafraid to give the right advice. He handles tricky clients, counsel and opponents well and is wonderfully fair minded.’

• ‘Lucy Hoare is a committed and talented solicitor. Goes above and beyond.’
• ‘Natasha Methven is everything you want in a solicitor. She really cares and has a complete handle on a case. Her star will rise.’

• ‘Simon Pigott is very clear headed and vastly knowledgeable. Excellent skills as mediator in establishing trust and innovative solutions.’

• ‘Simon Pigott is top of his field for complex financial mediation. He is our first port of call for clients for whom mediation is suitable.’
• ‘Simon Pigott has a deserved legendary reputation in the field of mediation. He is a superb mediator, ensuring he has an ability to resolve even the most intractable disagreements between the most challenging individuals. He is the ‘go-to’ person for mediation.’
• ‘Simon Pigott is the go-to mediator for complex financial remedy work. He is a class act. He is insightful, highly skilled and a leader in the field of family law mediation.’

The Legal 500 has been analysing the capabilities of law firms across the world for 35 years. The comprehensive research programme is revised and updated every year to bring the most up-to-date vision of the global legal market.  To read LMP’s testimonial in full, please click here.

The LMP family extends thanks to all clients and referees who have taken time to acknowledge the firm’s ongoing contribution to the world of family law and we look forward to continuing to work together in the years to come.