Lauren Evans

Lauren is a Senior Associate in the family team with experience of all types of private family law work, relating to both complex financial arrangements and children issues.  Lauren is also a mediator and helps clients to work through the practical and legal issues arising from separation and divorce. 
 

Lauren is named as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 2022 (and in the past was twice ranked as a Next Generation Lawyer). She was also shortlisted as Associate of the Year in the Family Law Awards 2019.

Lauren works strategically and creatively with clients to achieve the best possible outcome for them and their families. Lauren gives clear, sensible advice and always aims to resolve matters constructively and efficiently.

As a mediator, Lauren is described as a “bright, shining star”.  She is calm and compassionate, helping clients to focus on the issues that matter.   Lauren’s approach involves collaborative problem-solving, involving other professionals (such as accountants, IFAs, family therapists or solicitors) where appropriate.

Lauren has particular expertise in cases involving:

• International family issues including:
• Child relocation (also known as leave to remove)
• Cross border matrimonial disputes
• Complex financial issues on separation or divorce (particularly those involving company assets)
• All issues concerning the arrangements for children
• Financial arrangements for unmarried, cohabiting couples
• Pre and postnuptial agreements

Lauren has campaigned for the introduction of no fault divorce and equal civil partnerships and continues to campaign for laws to protect cohabiting couples.  She has written extensively including for The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Law Society Gazette, The Huffington Post, Private Client Advisor, Family Law Week, and New Law Journal among other publications.

Before completing her training contract at Kingsley Napley, Lauren read Law at Bristol University and completed her Legal Practice Course at The College of Law in Guildford.  Lauren was promoted to Senior Associate in 2017.

In her spare time, Lauren enjoys playing netball and football and escaping the city for the mountains.  Lauren is also an active member of the London YRes Committee and AIJA (the International Association of Young Lawyers).

What clients & DIRECTORIES say

Leading associate, certainly partner material. I have not worked with a more diligent lawyer.”

Legal 500 2022

“A bright shining star who will go far. A class act with the capacity and nature to calm clients and focus on the issues that matter.”

Legal 500 2022

I wanted to thank you again for all you have done for me. I distinctly remember meeting you a few years ago and feeling a sense of relief that I had official support when I needed it. You are very compassionate and understanding and I always felt like you were on my side, not just because I was paying a fee. All of your clients are lucky to have you! Thanks again Lauren. You really did save my sanity.”

A client

really good with numbers and has a very relaxed manner with clients."

Legal 500 UK 2017

Thank you for all your intelligent and careful 'attention to detail' during the whole divorce and financial process. You were friendly and dependable, and gave me the security and professionalism I very much needed, and was able to trust implicitly, during this difficult time."

It's been good to call on your calm clarity at those moments where I was anxious and apprehensive or uncertain of the next step or timescales, and you always managed to come up with the right number of weeks and in some cases you surpassed those times which was always such a nice surprise!"

Very helpful, always gave me the right advice, I felt that they wanted to win and understood my case."

Extremely prompt responses. I felt like my solicitors genuinely cared about my case."

 

Recent cases

• Re R (A Child - Relocation) [2015] EWHC 456 (Fam)

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Publications & press

• Living dangerously, quoted in Law Society Gazette article about cohabitation,  January 2019
• Is our different-sex Pacs valid if returning from France to UK, quoted in article in The Connexion, December 2018
• A Call To Arms For Equal Civil Partnerships - Huffington Post, 2017
• 'I don't': Why choose civil partnership over marriage? - BBC, 2017
• Civil partnership couple seek Supreme Court hearing - Law Society Gazette, 2017
• Heterosexual couple to appeal after losing civil partnership case - The Times, 2016
• Heterosexual couple lose out on civil partnership - New Law Journal, 2016
• High Court rejects bid to lift the ban on civil partnerships for heterosexual couples - Family Law Week, 2016
• Everyone Should Be Free to Choose Between Marriage or Civil Partnership - Huffington Post, 2015

 

Professional societies and memberships

• Lauren is a member of Resolution
• Lauren is on the London YRes Committee, which is the junior branch of Resolution, the association of family lawyers committed to promoting the non-confrontational resolution of family disputes