Spear’s Review

Samantha Hickman is a partner specialising in family and divorce law within the private client team at VWV, a leading firm in Bristol. VWV’s clients include entrepreneurs, leaders of business, authors, broadcasters, musicians and other high-profile individuals.

The team covers all aspects of family law, with Hickman’s specialism being in HNW financial work and some children matters. Many of her cases involve at least some international or cross-jurisdictional element.

Hickman’s international work has covered clients with assets in the EU, many African countries, the US and Mexico. She is a trained collaborative lawyer, a family mediator, an accredited Resolution specialist and member of the Law Society Family Panel. Indeed, Hickman emphasises that she is not litigious unless necessary: ‘We are firm and fair, but our approach is always to settle a case where we can.’