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Position

Senior associate

Index

Family Lawyers

Location

London

Advice type

Children law

Complex family matters

Cross-border

Divorces

High-value cases

Matrimonial

Mediation

Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements

Surrogacy

Client type

Families

Sector Focus

Legal Advisory Services

Jessie Smith

Spear’s Review

With a knack for complex and high-value divorce and financial remedy proceedings (often involving complex trust structures), Jessie Smith is a highly regarded senior associate in the family team at Howard Kennedy.

In her line of work, Smith engages frequently with external experts, including counsellors and psychotherapists, to ensure her clients’ needs are met in the most holistic way possible. She tells Spear’s that her career has seen a move ‘towards extremely complex cases – children and finances – involving detailed analysis and summary of decades of evidence, dozens of companies or assets in several jurisdictions’. She also frequently advises international couples on pre- and postnuptial agreements.

She is a member of Resolution and the diversity and inclusion officer on the International Bar Association family law committee.

Rank: Recommended

Recommended 2025, Family Lawyers

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