amicable, the award-winning divorce and separation service, has submitted its application to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to launch a new, separate law firm serving England and Wales. Alongside that, it’s opening the search for the solicitors who will help build it.
The new firm will be regulated in its own right, allowing it to offer legal services and representation that amicable itself, as an unregulated business, does not provide.
Pip Wilson, CEO of amicable, said: ‘We started amicable because we believed there had to be a kinder way to divorce. But working with couples together isn’t always possible for every situation, and until now we haven’t been able to help those people ourselves. The new firm is for them. It will be built on the same values, and on the technology and innovation that let us do things in a better way. We’re looking for family and conveyancing solicitors who share that ambition and want to help shape the firm from day one.’
For more than a decade, amicable has helped thousands of couples separate together rather than on opposing sides. The new firm will work with the people that amicable can’t currently help directly, as well as carrying out some of the work amicable’s own customers already need from a regulated firm.
Alongside the family law work, the new firm will provide conveyancing services for people who need to transfer property following separation or divorce. It will be a small, focused service covering transfers of equity and related remortgages, when a separating couple moves the family home into one name.
Solicitors interested in joining the founding team can find out more by emailing [email protected] .