Described as "pre-eminent" by both Legal 500 and Chambers UK legal guides, Silk Family Law is the North’s leading specialist family law firm with clients nationwide. Operating from offices in Newcastle, North Yorkshire and Leeds, with consulting rooms in York and London, the firm has a formidable reputation and unrivalled broad-ranging experience in all aspects of family law. Solicitors Kim Fellowes and Margaret Simpson, together with barrister Ian Kennerley, opened Silk Family Law as a niche specialist family law practice in October 2010 following many years as the family law team within Dickinson Dees (now Womble Bond Dickinson). Silk has been ranked as top tier for family law for ten consecutive years by both independent legal guides, Chambers UK and Legal 500. The latter commenting that the firm has "genuinely brilliant expertise wedded to a caring and thoughtful approach that makes it truly peerless.” The three founding partners, together with fellow partner Wayne Lynn, are all named individuals in both legal guides. Renowned for handling complex and high value financial cases arising out of divorce and separation, Silk Family Law has particular expertise in cases involving corporate, farming and pension issues. Silk is the only family law firm in the North to offer in house counsel through barrister and partner, Ian Kennerley.