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Financial Remedies Awards 2025 - Solicitor of the Year

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Financial Remedies Awards 2025.

For our inaugural year, we received an exceptional number of entries from across the field of financial remedies, each one showcasing innovation, integrity, and excellence.

Winners were announced during a drinks ceremony following the Financial Remedies Conference 2025. Thank you to those who joined us for the awards. The awards were a fantastic opportunity to come together as a community to celebrate and recognise the incredible achievements of each of the winners.

Solicitor of the Year

This award is generously sponsored by Milsted Langdon, represented at the awards by Roger Isaacs.

Solicitor of the Year was awarded to Michael Allum, International Family Law Group.

The Solicitor of the Year category celebrates an individual whose work in financial remedies has truly stood out over the past year. Whether through groundbreaking cases, influential advocacy, thought leadership, or exceptional pro bono service.

Here's what the judges had to say:

"The winner stands out for his extraordinary commitment to thought leadership and education in financial remedies. He is a specialist in high value and complex financial settlements, with a particular flair for the technical issues such as pensions and tax, and is well known for his expertise in Part III cases.He tirelessly contributes to improving knowledge, standards and promoting best practice in financial remedies.
He developed the Maintenance Indexation Calculator, improving access to justice.  He was invited to join the Duxbury Working Party because of his written commentary on Duxbury related issues prior to the report in 2024. He has recently joined the Resolution Pensions Tax and Financial Remedies Committee and International Committee, giving his time to work on effecting policy change and delivering key training on technical FR issues to Resolution’s membership. He is one of the next generation of experts on pensions on divorce."