Simon Pigott

Spear's Review

For Simon Pigott of Levison Meltzer Pigott there’s no such thing as a ‘good’ divorce – only ‘slightly less unpleasant’ ones.

‘No one goes through the process with any sense of pleasure,’ he tells Spear’s. ‘As solicitors, our role is to understand that, and to recognise that, for a lot of clients, divorce is all-consuming, and something that worries them hugely.’ It’s the sort of plain-speaking wisdom that has differentiated Pigott’s firm from much of the competition. Co-founded by Pigott in 1998, it specialises solely in family law, and continues to draw in big-money cases.

Despite doubling in size over two decades, the firm has stayed true to its founding principles of being a boutique practice, solely focused on family law – with its finely tuned in-house expertise reflecting this specialism.

Adviser Profile

Simon is a founding partner of Levison Meltzer Pigott (LMP) and experienced in all aspects of divorce and family law. He is a member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and was one of the first family law mediators trained by the Family Mediators Association. He was Chair of the Association between 1995 and 1997, and was Vice-Chair of the United Kingdom College of Family Mediators between 1996 and 1998. He remains an accredited and practising family mediator. He is also a trained Collaborative lawyer. Simon was a member of the working group, appointed by the Family Justice Council as part of its primary role to promote an inter-disciplinary approach to family justice.