Helen Young

Helen Young has to be one of the hardest working solicitors I have ever encountered. She has a no-nonsense approach to cases and has seemingly-effortless good judgment. Her clients soon come to trust her implicitly, and rightly so, she always fights hard for her clients whilst giving realistic advice that allows them to choose a path in keeping with their own formulation of risk. She strips emotion out of decision making and helps clients understand decisions from a strategic and pragmatic viewpoint.

Helen Young leads the family team and sets a great example to those in her department with her hard work ethic and approachable style. She’s very popular with her clients and fellow professionals. I enjoy working alongside her.

Debenhams Ottaway have a great team of family lawyers led by the excellent Helen Young. Great team approach to working too.

Helen Young is always on top of her cases and gives very realistic and settlement-focused advice to her clients.

Helen Young is knowledgeable, reliable, considerate and trustworthy; she has provided a first-class service, helping me through a very difficult divorce. I have found her to be knowledgeable and thorough, and her attention to detail has been outstanding.

Helen Young has been hugely supportive and helpful in navigating the divorce settlement process with me. I am grateful for her calm manner and ability to negotiate detailed and complicated issues within the settlement. Her attention to detail is excellent, but in addition to that she also has a way of smoothing contentious matters and enabling all sides to remain calm and purposeful. She has been a very steadying hand in a difficult period, and has truly contributed to the outcome of our divorce being as amicable as possible.

Helen has been an excellent lawyer. She understands my feeling well and is always able to explain the solution clearly and concisely. She has excellent knowledge on the law and is always able to propose a solution to the best of interests.

Helen’s assistance and advice to me throughout the difficult separation and divorce process was calm, intelligent, supportive and effective. She was able to explain my options to me and I found her advice to be always measured, proportionate and wise. I am so grateful for her support through the process which was so new and daunting to me. She helped keep a calm eye on things, and also handled the complex details of the case skilfully and with a brilliant eye for detail. I had total trust in her and am sincerely grateful for her help.

Quick responses, clarity of written communication, level of expertise in navigating a complex situation across two countries.

Thank you so much to Helen Young for the professional, efficient and supportive way in which she dealt with my divorce. I am extremely grateful and would recommend anyone in my position to contact Helen.

Helen was very professional and knowledgeable but also very supportive and understanding.

Thank you for all your help and excellent work over the past few years, guiding me through the minefield of the separation agreement and divorce process. It is a huge relief to of finally completed it all.

I felt secure and happy with the service. Helen and Jackie are so friendly, helpful and they listened to me. Lovely ladies.

Helen made me feel comfortable straight away offering me advice and choices and being patient and understanding. She always explained everything with transparency and empathy.

Helen was thorough and tenacious throughout the process. She caught errors from the other solicitor and followed up appropriately when the other solicitor was slow to respond. She also took the time to understand the complexity of writing a UK divorce that would also need to be filed in the US. I knew I could trust her to follow through on the process, which made it less stressful for me.

Helen Young works like a Trojan, has an excellent forensic eye and thinks several strategic moves ahead at all stages. She has incredibly good client care; delivering no-nonsense but empathetic advice.

Helen adopts a sensible and conciliatory approach to matters and in how she conducts negotiations.

Helen is an exceptional solicitor; I am so glad she is on our side.

I feel extremely fortunate having Helen to lead me through the complexities of separation and financial negotiations.

I am very grateful that Helen took time to assist me, to discuss my options and to provide very practical advice.