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Duane has over 20 years experience acting in divorce settlements and all aspects of family law. Duane specialises in complex financial settlements, usually where there are larger assets or a business to consider. Duane’s professional panel qualifications reflect his day to day work which is representing clients either as an advocate in court or where the breakdown of the family means there are sensitive children issues to resolve. Duane is recognised by the Legal 500 as “warm and highly articulate”. Duane is an experienced Collaborative Lawyer and Mediator and he enjoys the fact that these options enable clients to find tailor made solutions that meet their personal needs and interests.
Duane is a trainer of other Family Lawyers in Collaborative Family Law and in Collaborative Negotiation Skills.
Duane's Professional and Panel memberships include: Resolution Accredited Specialist Family Lawyer in children and ancillary relief advocacy; Law Society Family Law Panel member; member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals; member of the Collaborative groups in Cambridge (committee member), East Anglia and Peterborough; member of Resolution in Cambridge and Cambridge Law Society (committee member). He is a member of Resolution’s national sub-committee for ADR Training for Mediation and Collaborative Family Law. He is a Resolution Mediator.
For many years Duane has represented the views of local solicitors in the media on topical family law subjects. Duane is the Press Officer and spokesman for Cambridge Law Society, for Cambridge Collaborative Family Law Group and for Resolution (the body to which specialist family lawyers belong). Accordingly Duane is sought out by the local and national media when they need a legal expert to comment upon and write topical family law articles for newspapers and magazines and to give interviews on radio and television.
Duane has explained and promoted Collaborative Family Law on Legal TV programmes and Legal Network TV’s training dvd for the legal profession.
Duane says, “Divorce and the breakdown of a relationship is a very stressful and frightening time. At the beginning, clients worry about what will happen to the home or their relationship with the children or the financial settlement or what will happen to the business. My approach is very simple. I like helping clients to find the best practical ways of solving their problems with dignity. I fervently believe in informed choices for clients, often where they do not initially feel they have any choices at all."
Contact Duane by email or phone +44 (0) 1223 443333
