Our People
Jane Charlton
Legal Director
Jane Charlton
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Milton Keynes
Jane has significant experience of acting for husbands, wives and cohabiting partners on relation breakdown, offering no-nonsense, sensible advice.
Joanna Forbes
Legal Director
Joanna Forbes
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Joanna’s deep affinity for the education sector is reflected in her responsive approach and her practical, applied and thorough advice.
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Languages:
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English
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French
Kate Saunders
Legal Director
Kate Saunders
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Sheffield
Kate specialises in a wide range of inheritance, trust, and estate disputes. She advises private individuals, professional executors and trustees, and charities on a variety of disputes relating to estates and trusts that can arise post death.
Kieran Pearson
Legal Director
Kieran is a legal director in our innovative Managed Legal Services team.
Laura Giles
Legal Director
Laura Giles
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Sheffield
Laura advises business owners, companies and institutions on all aspects of growth and financing, from start-up to exit.
Laura Taylor
Legal Director
Laura Taylor
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Laura advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters and has experience of working with a vast range of public and private sector clients
Lisa Serrant
Legal Director
Lisa Serrant
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau London
Lisa is a first-class Legal Director in our London litigation and dispute resolution team. She has a wealth of experience in general commercial litigation and international arbitration, with a growing focus on energy and natural resources disputes.
Lubna Laheria
Legal Director
Lubna Laheria
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Lubna is an experienced employment solicitor who supports a diverse client base with HR matters, employment tribunal litigation, and corporate advisory work.
Lucinda Chaplin
Legal Director
Lucinda Chaplin
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Lucinda has a wealth of experience in providing employment support to a broad range of clients, across all sectors.
Lucy Hemming
Legal Director
Lucy Hemming
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau London
Lucy acts for our developers and general commercial property clients.
Marie Bourke
Legal Director
Marie Bourke
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Sheffield
Marie specialises in representing professional individuals and organisations facing allegations of corporate and financial crime.
Marie-Therese Harper
Legal Director
Marie-Therese Harper
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Marie-Therese advises businesses and their owners on a wide variety of corporate transactions and complicated reorganisations to help them achieve their objectives.
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My Recent Articles
- Latest provisions for corporate disclosure & transparency
Matthew Harris
Legal Director
Matthew Harris
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Matthew works collaboratively with other energy specialists across a range of technologies to support clients with their decarbonisation agendas.
Meriel O’Loughlin
Legal Director
Meriel O’Loughlin
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Meriel adopts a proactive and commercial approach to drive transactions forward to completion quickly, ensuring her clients interests are protected.
Michael Young
Legal Director
Michael Young
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Michael has been at the forefront of our professional negligence work for over 10 years, working on numerous cases throughout his career for clients ranging from individuals through to SMEs and blue-chip companies.
Midhika Joseph
Legal Director
Midhika Joseph
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Midhika advises on academic partnerships, commercial collaborations and regulatory matters.
Monica Ghai
Legal Director
Monica Ghai
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Monica practices in all areas of family law and has developed a reputation for providing practical, thorough and clear advice. In particular Monica has particular interest and expertise in representing individuals where there are cultural and/or international elements of family law.
Nicola Lediard
Legal Director
Nicola Lediard
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Nicola works with clients to resolve a broad range of disputes in an effective and thorough manner, and to find sensible, long-term solutions to their legal problems.
Nicola Storey-Wood
Legal Director
Nicola Storey-Wood
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Nicola provides a professional and knowledgeable service to real estate clients and financing institutions. Nicola works for a range of clients, including individuals, corporate entities, banks, Islamic finance institutions and short term lenders.
Paul Greatrix
Director of Higher Education Consultancy
Dr Paul Greatrix is Director of Higher Education Consultancy and joined Shakespeare Martineau in August 2025 after over 35 years working in the HE sector including 18 years as Registrar of the University of Nottingham.
Paul McMaster
Legal Director
Paul McMaster
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Paul uses his technical expertise to come up with bespoke solutions on all aspects of private client law.
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My Recent Articles
- Last Words That Matter: What to Include in Your Will
Pia Eames
Legal Director
Pia Eames
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham
Pia is a highly effective lawyer focussing on resolving all types of commercial property disputes for her clients.
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Languages:
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English
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Hindi
Rebecca Fox-Jones
Legal Director
Rebecca Fox-Jones
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Nottingham
Rebecca works in our real estate and energy team with a focus on high-volume transactions for utilities clients.
Robert Mander
Legal Director
Robert Mander
Legal Director
Shakespeare Martineau Sheffield
Robert has extensive experience in the full range of commercial property work.