Dickinson Gleeson

DICKINSON GLEESON CELEBRATES its 10th anniversary as one of Jersey’s leading dispute resolution and private wealth boutique law firms. The multi-award winning firm is led by James Dickinson, James Gleeson and Craig Swart.

The firm differs from its competitors in offering a strong partner-led ethos, which larger firms struggle to replicate, and as a result of its desire to find early and innovative solutions to complex legal problems. The firm delivers an excellent legal service to each of its clients, a commitment which led to it being recognised in a 2020 Legal 500 survey as one of Jersey’s ‘top four firms for client service’.

The firm brings intellectual rigour to bear in each matter and believes that this approach delivers results for its clients, including in the courtroom. It has led industry commentators to observe that the firm is ‘an excellent litigation boutique firm with real strength in depth and outstanding commercial awareness’ and that, ‘They’re intellectually rigorous and have a great practice... a great boutique firm’.

The firm won the Boutique Law Firm of the Year 2020 award at the Citywealth International Finance Centre Awards 2020 for the third year in a row. It was nominated for the Legal 500 2020 Offshore Law Firm of the Year Award, which it won in 2017 and has also been nominated for the prestigious STEP 2020 Private Client ‘Boutique Law Firm of the Year’ award.

Founding partners James Dickinson and James Gleeson are recognised in the Legal 500 ‘Hall of Fame’ and in Legal Week’s ‘Private Client Global Elite’. In addition, James Dickinson is listed in Citywealth’s list of ‘Top 20 Professionals in Jersey’ and ‘Top 20 Lawyers 2020’ and James Gleeson is listed in Citywealth’s 2020 list of ‘Top 100 trust litigators and polymaths’. Both founding partners continue to be involved in high value and complex litigation. James Gleeson acts for the current trustees in the long-running ‘Z Trusts’ litigation concerning insolvent trusts and their winding-up in the interests of creditors. James Dickinson continues to represent clients in heavily contested litigation and appeared in Jersey’s first post onset of Covid-19 Court of Appeal civil hearing, which was held remotely and was due to appear in the first post onset of Covid-19 civil trial — however, this case settled in the week prior to trial.

FOCUS

Contentious trust and estates; Fraud, asset tracing and insolvency; Company and funds litigation; Private wealth

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