Sue Brookes

Principal Associate

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What can I do for you

Sue is both a specialist family lawyer and an accredited mediator. She enables clients to resolve the financial and practical implications of separation and divorce as painlessly as possible, whether through advice or mediation.

Sue also helps married and unmarried clients protect wealth through cohabitation and nuptial agreements.

Sue works with national and international clients, including business owners and professionals. 

What do others say

"Sue Brookes was outstanding and I cannot praise her enough for her approach and advice which was invaluable and provided me with confidence that the process had a clearly defined end and the likely responses from the other side. I felt I was informed and supported at all times." - Legal 500

Supporting your ambitions

As a solicitor, Sue helps clients resolve disputes with clear and practical advice. Sue approaches every case sensitively and adopts the best possible approach for the individual client. This may be expert legal advice in the background, collaborative law or adopting a more robust approach and litigating when needed.

The more complex the case, the more creative the solution needs to be.

Sue has years of experience in high value and complex cases involving property disputes, pensions, businesses, trusts or child arrangements, all of which she can draw upon to help clients to find the best solution in every case. 

What else should you know?

Sue works increasingly with unmarried families. She is on a personal crusade to debunk the widely held belief in the "common law marriage" because of how vulnerable the myth often leaves people in practice.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”

As many clients will testify, too many lawyers deliver the required legal expertise but fail to deliver an outstanding client experience. Which is why we always listen to our clients and constantly ask ourselves what we can do to deliver the results you expect.

You expect a close and attentive working relationship, with a lawyer that is responsive and available when you need them. You also want clear, pragmatic and commercial advice tailored to your needs, and transparency and certainty on costs. We completely agree. That’s why every day, through our culture and approach we are committed to delivering the exceptional results and service our clients expect of us.

Related sectors and services

  • Businesses
  • Cohabitation
  • Family and children law
  • Family mediation
  • Family solicitors in Manchester
  • Pension sharing
  • Private wealth
  • Separate well together
  • Trusts on divorce
  • Unmarried couples

Insights from Sue

21 Feb 2022

Mediation and domestic abuse

06 Oct 2021

If anything happens to me, what would happen to my children?