Spear’s Review

Most of Boodle Hatfield partner Katie O’Callaghan’s clients come to her in search of a ‘discreet adviser who will provide them with sensible and pragmatic advice’.

Fortunately, they get what they come for. Accomplished in all areas of family law, O’Callaghan is no stranger to the high-value and high-profile – particularly those cases which involve an element of financial complexity.

Cases often encompass a strategic element, she says, but are always grounded in an understanding of a difficult, emotive situation. ‘No two cases are alike, and I obtain job satisfaction from providing commercial and solutions-based advice with sensitivity and compassion to each individual set of circumstances,’ the qualified mediator says. ‘I believe it is vital to make clients feel at ease in often highly emotional circumstances.’

Notable cases

• WM v HM [2017] EWFC 25
• B v B [2013] EWHC 1232