Burgess Mee has been commended for family law in The Times Best Law Firms 2025 – a survey of the most highly recommended 250 law firms in England& Wales and the top 20 in Scotland, published today.

Burgess Mee has been included in the report – which is based on votes by solicitors and barristers – for the seventh year running, since its inception.

The Times comments:

“Notable recent work includes advising the husband in a case concerning a prenuptial agreement entered into before a short marriage, with assets of about £50 million. The judge departed from the terms of the prenuptial agreement and held that the wife’s claim was limited to needs rather than sharing.

“Its lawyers represented two fathers without charge in an application for a step-parent adoption order after a surrogacy arrangement, where the surrogate opposed the order. The court did not make the step-parent adoption order (meaning that the surrogate mother retained legal parentage and parental responsibility for the child), but ordered that the child would continue to live with the intended parents and made an order for the non-biological intended parent to have parental responsibility. The judge made other orders to regulate the three adults’ use of parental responsibility.

“Burgess Mee has a strong focus on finding solutions outside court and concluded a successful private hearing in a case with a very valuable art collection. The firm also reached a mediated settlement over a marital pot of £25 million — an outcome that improved the parents’ relationship and benefited their teenage daughters.”

The full write-up can be found here.

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