Consilia Legal’s director and co-founder, Laura Clapton, has received another prestigious industry ranking to cement her place as a leading family lawyer in the legal sector and to provide important recognition for the business as it seeks to excel further in a very competitive field. Laura Clapton has been ranked as a recommended lawyer in the widely respected Spear’s 500 rankings, which is the ultimate accolade for solicitors practising in the specialist field of high-net-worth family law.
Laura also received this accolade in July 2025, and these successive rankings confirm that the excellent level of service provided by Consilia Legal is consistently high and is being recognised throughout the industry.
What is the Spear’s 500?
The Spear’s 500 has become established as the definitive resource for high-net-worth, and ultra-high-net-worth, families seeking expert advice and legal services. It is a guide that has been described as the ‘Michelin Guide of wealth’ and is essentially a directory of profiles listing over 3,000 advisors who specialise in areas associated with wealthy families. This includes advice on properties, tax, travel, architecture and, of course, the law.
High-net-worth families require the highest quality of specialist advice given the complexity, ambitions and risk involved in their work and everyday life, and the Spear’s 500 aims to be the definitive resource for managing this. The Spear’s 500 is an annual list provided for each sector, which is reviewed and refreshed to provide an updated ranking each year based on submissions, nominations, peer reviews, interviews and third-party data.
Spear’s 500 recognition for Laura Clapton
Laura has been listed in previous years in the Spear’s 500 rankings, which means Consilia Legal are able to consistently provide an elite level of service and advice for high-net-worth families. Being included in the Spear’s 500 rankings is recognition for how the business has progressed since Laura co-founded it in 2014. The initial aim was to provide family law and mediation services for high-net-worth families, and in the intervening 12 years this has been achieved on a national scale, with the business now managing offices in London, Leeds, York and Harrogate.
The Spear’s 500 listing recognises that the practice encompasses all aspects of private family law, “including divorce and separation, pre- and postnuptial agreements and children matters, with a large amount of referrals coming from contacts in London’s commercial law firms.” The listing also includes a comment from Laura in which she describes her important influence in family law matters, and in particular, mediation: “I can be a very calming influence in a mediation session. Lawyers may have otherwise fallen into the trap of becoming quite positional and it becoming acrimonious, but by all working together we can get them through it pretty scar-free.”
Important industry recognition for Consilia Legal
With this 2026 listing in the Spear’s 500, Laura has further cemented her place as a leading national advisor in specialist family law. She has also been listed in other prestigious industry rankings, such as those provided by the Legal 500, the Doyles Guide and by Chambers and Partners. Laura can advise on all areas of private family law, but specialises in mediation, high net worth matrimonial finance and complex matters relating to Child Law. Laura has consistently demonstrated her expertise in advising on complex financial structures, businesses and overseas assets, including business assets valuing more than £30,000,000, as well as the challenging emotional side of high-net-worth divorce and how children are affected by this. This demonstrates a wide range of skills which includes having strong technical knowledge, but also understanding how to apply this in specific contexts and with appropriate empathy and understanding.
As an established law firm in the sector of high-net-worth family law, Consilia Legal can add this recognition to an already impressive canon of industry awards. The organisation itself is also listed in the Legal 500 rankings, as well as being recognised by the Yorkshire Legal Awards, Family Law Awards, The Times, Business Masters Awards and Chambers and Partners. In receiving the 2026 listing in the Spear’s 500 rankings, Laura commented: “It is an extremely proud moment to be recognised again as a recommended lawyer in the Spear’s 500 rankings. At our practice we aim for a consistently high level of service, and so we never get complacent about industry recognition and always use it as motivation to keep on achieving, because these are the standards our client base expects. It is also important to recognise that this is a team effort and we have a very strong unit where everyone contributes as directors, associates and specialist solicitors to ensure we can provide the best possible quality of service.”
To speak with Laura about your high net worth family matter, please call 0113 322 9222 or email enquiries@consilialegal.co.uk