Zoë Bloom

Spear’s Review

Nominated for the Family Lawyer of the Year award at 2018’s Spear’s Wealth Management Awards, Bloom employs an energetic approach to her practice. The founder of Bloom Budd (a firm launched in 2022 to challenge the current fee structure in family law) is described as part of the ‘new school’ of family lawyers, her focus on outcome rather than process.

Her caseload comprises some of the most complex issues that separating families face, and she is not afraid to take on clients who are already in the middle of proceedings, driving them through to settlement.

‘I am often instructed by clients who are fed up with their cases drifting along aimlessly with no strategy,’ she says. ‘We call it “gentleman’s drift”, and I see it far too often – particularly from clients who have previously instructed some of the more traditional practices.’