Jane Keir

Chambers UK 2011 (ranked Band 1): "I often recommend her because she has all the ingredients of a fantastic lawyer - she is extremely clever, very client-friendly and takes just the right approach to negotiations."

Jane is head of the family law team and former managing partner of the firm's contentious teams. She has extensive experience of divorce, financial proceedings and children related issues both within the married and the unmarried family. 

Jane joined Kingsley Napley in 1989, became a partner in 1992 and head of family in 1999.

In 2007 she won the Legal Services category of the Women in the City's Women of Achievement Awards.  She was included in the Citywealth Leaders List 2011 as a leading Family lawyer (Honours List).

Jane is listed as an expert in her field in the current Legal Experts Guide, the Legal 500 and Chambers UK directories. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Jane is an accredited Family Law specialist with Resolution and of the Law Society's Family Law Panel in the fields of complex finances and children.  She is also a trained and practising Collaborative lawyer.

Jane speaks conversational french and enjoys travelling.  She is passionate about horses and rides regularly as well as breeding thoroughbreds.

What the directories and clients say

• "combines commercial awareness and acuity with extremely good client care skills." - Chambers UK: A client's guide to the UK legal profession (2010)
• "a likeable and approachable character in an area of law that can easily become confrontational and over-wrought." - Chambers UK: A client's guide to the UK legal profession (2009)
• "Jane Keir heads the family team at Kingsley Napley with 'grace,style and a sharp intellect' with strength across the department in both financial and children work." - Legal 500 (2007)
• "...worth every penny and thanks again for every little bit of sympathy and patient advice. I maintain my sanity in no small part because of your efforts on my behalf." - Client (2009)

Professional societies and committees

• Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML)
• Resolution
• Resolution accredited specialist (for both international and child abduction)
• The Law Society (accredited member of the Law Society Family Law Panel)
• Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies
• Reunite
• Member of the City Women's Network and past chair of its Professional and Personal Development committee

Interviews and Articles published

• Grannynet, 11 April 2012 Grandparents denied contact with their grandchildren should take heart…
• The Times Lawyer of the Week - 5 April 2012
• Sunday Mail 8 January 2012 - "New Year sales are driven by divorce"
• Sunday Telegraph 29 March 2009 - "How to prevent I do turning into I don't"
• Live interviews on News 24 and Radio 4 commenting on McCartney divorce payout
• Live interview on Sky news commenting on celebrity divorce cases, further to the alleged leaked divorce papers in the McCartney - Mills case, October 2006
• Live interview for Channel 5 news commenting upon the impact of the £48m award in the Charman divorce in August 2006
• Live interview for Channel 5 news on the recent Law Commission's proposals for extending the right to claim financial provision for cohabiting couples
• Live interview for Channel 5 news on 'Miller' and 'McFarlane' judgments, May 2006
• Mind the gap...' in the New Law Journal, February 2005, co-author with Duncan Ranton
• 'Money, Lies and private eyes' in the New Law Journal, November 2004
• Interviewed in July 2003 for Channel Five News on the subject of the new Civil Partnership Bill and the rights akin to marriage that it will give to same sex couples.
• Quoted extensively on the case of 'Lambert' both in 'In Brief' Jan 2003 and Barker Poland IFA's winter 2002/3 newsletter. 
• 'Law Direct' re legal aspects of IVF treatment September 2002
• 'Discretion Absolute' in New Law Journal February 2002
• Bare talaq - not enough' in the SFLA Review 2001