Debenhams Ottaway Solicitors St Albans is a distinguished law firm offering comprehensive legal services to both individuals and businesses across Hertfordshire and beyond. Specializing in a wide array of legal disciplines, the firm stands out for its high level of legal expertise, professional qualifications, and a client-focused, approachable service. Located in the historic cathedral city of St Albans, the firm is easily accessible and serves a diverse range of clients with personalized and strategic legal solutions.
The firm combines deep legal knowledge with a pragmatic, friendly approach, ensuring clients receive clear, actionable advice tailored to their specific needs. With expertise spanning personal and business law, Debenhams Ottaway is particularly recognized for its work in private wealth, dispute resolution, and employment law, catering to private individuals, families, business owners, senior executives, and organizations across various sectors including healthcare, charities, and recruitment. The team includes accredited specialists, such as members of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS), and the firm holds several accolades and quality accreditations.
Services Offered
- Conveyancing and residential property
- Buying and selling buy-to-lets and investment property
- Ownership transfers
- Remortgaging
- Equity release
- Lease extensions, collective enfranchisement, and buying freehold
- Buying and selling property at auction
- Employment law for employees
- Employment status advice
- Employment contract and policy review
- Disciplinaries and grievances
- Workplace discrimination, harassment, and victimisation
- Unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, and constructive dismissal
- Redundancy and restructuring (including TUPE)
- Restrictive covenants and data theft allegations
- Legal advice for senior executives
- Settlement agreements
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
- Employment Tribunal and court representation
- Family law, divorce, and separation
- Divorce and civil partnership dissolution
- Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
- Child arrangements and international relocation
- Child maintenance and spousal maintenance claims
- Cohabitation and living together agreements
- Collaborative law
- Surrogacy law
- Family mediation
- Court of Protection
- Deputyship applications
- NHS continuing healthcare claims
- Professional attorneyship and deputyship management
- Safeguarding vulnerable adults
- Statutory Wills
- Wills, trusts, inheritance, and probate
- Making a Will
- Inheritance tax planning
- Setting up and administering a trust
- Declaration of trust
- Probate and estate administration
- Lasting powers of attorney
- Intestacy
- Professional trustee services
- Private wealth services
- Business succession planning
- Tax and estate planning
- Trusts to protect assets and family wealth
- Family finances and divorce
- High value residential property
- Contested Wills, trusts, and inheritance disputes
- Disputing a Will
- Disputes involving executors, trustees, and beneficiaries
- Inheritance Act claims
- Professional negligence in Will writing
- Challenging a lifetime gift
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Lender litigation
- Professional negligence claims
- Private equity disputes
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Alternative litigation funding and insurance
- Clinical negligence claims
- Commercial litigation and dispute resolution
- Consumer disputes
- Debt recovery
- Property disputes
- Regulatory law
- Corporate and commercial law
- Intellectual property transactions, litigation, and dispute resolution
- Banking, finance, and loan agreements
- Buying and selling a business
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Standard terms of business
- Structuring your business
- Commercial property
- Agriculture law
- Commercial landlord and tenant
- Property asset management
- Property development
- Property litigation
- Sale and purchase
- Employment law for employers
- Charities and not-for-profit legal advice
- Healthcare legal services
- Regulatory compliance
- NHS contracting
- Recruitment sector legal advice
The firm serves clients across St Albans, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, and the wider UK, with additional offices in Radlett and London. Their solicitors are equipped to assist clients in English, and the firm has been recognized in legal directories such as Chambers and the Legal 500, reflecting its commitment to excellence and client satisfaction.
