Our Story…

Patrick Lawrence Partnership LLP is a family-run business, established as Patrick Lawrence Solicitors in 1983 in the centre of Gravesend, Kent, becoming a Limited Liability Partnership in 2017 and opening our Chatham branch in August 2018. We can see clients at either branch.

Our team of experienced solicitors, Legal Executives, paralegals and legal secretaries can assist you with a variety of legal issues, from residential and commercial conveyancing, probate and Wills, to divorce, cohabitation agreements and breakdown, children issues, including care proceedings, domestic violence and other matters such as lasting power of attorney.

If you are unsure if we can help you, please contact our offices and we can advise you.

Patrick Lawrence (Partner)

Patrick has worked in family law for over 35 years and was a founding member of the first national network of solicitors dealing with injunction law. Patrick deals with cases concerning all aspects of family law and also handles Wills.

Patrick is an advanced member of the Law Society's Family Law Panel and a member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors' Family Law Association). He graduated in Law, with Honours from the London School of Economics in 1977, qualified as a solicitor in 1980, and established the business in 1983.

Karen Wallis (Partner)

Karen is the joint head of the Property and Probate department. She has worked in this area of law for over 25 years and has extensive experience in tenancy dispute cases and other areas of commercial property law.

She is a Chartered Legal Executive.

ANDREW HUMPHRIES (Partner)

Andrew can assist clients in divorce proceedings and financial disputes between couples, whether married or unmarried.

He represents parents in private law proceedings involving disputes as to child arrangements.

Andrew has a specialism in representing parents and family members in care proceedings brought by social services and has been involved in a number of complex cases involving allegations of non- accidental injury, in particular defending parents and interveners in cases where non-accidental head injury is alleged against them. 

ANGELA GOODWIN (PARTNER)

Angela is a solicitor undertaking work mainly in relation to children and specialising in care proceedings.  Angela also deals with advising clients in relation to Special Guardianship, adoption and has experience in dealing with cases with an international element.

Angela has been a member of the Children Panel since 2003 and regularly represents parents and children in complex care proceedings. Angela graduated in Law from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1997 and qualified as a Solicitor in 2000.

Lauren Baker (partner)

Lauren Baker qualified as a solicitor in 2010. She specialises in child protection and public law  representing parents and children in care proceedings.

She became a Children Panel member in 2012. Lauren is an experienced advocate representing clients in fact finding hearings, multi-day hearings and complex contested hearings in both care proceedings, cases concerning jurisdictional issues as well as forced marriages, FGM and sexual exploitation cases. She has recently become involved in the establishment of and training at the Family Drug and Alcohol pilot court in Kent.

Raveen Bains (partner)

Raveen heads the matrimonial department at Patrick Lawrence Partnership. She is a very experienced family solicitor having handled many complex high net worth disputes following marriage breakdowns involving multiple properties, valuable pensions, businesses and foreign assets.

She is also able to assist clients in any dispute concerning their children and, if required, injunctive relief, as well as dealing with disputes between unmarried couples. Raveen is conscientious and takes great pride in her client-focused approach to every case, delivering comprehensive advice in an efficient manner.