David Josiah-Lake completed his law degree in 1989, before graduating in 1990 from the Guildford School of Law with Honours. His training then took him Chelmsford and two years as an articled clerk/trainee solicitor with Gepp and Sons, the largest solicitors practice in Essex, where he developed an interest in and a flair for family law work. Since being admitted as a solicitor in 1992, David has chosen to specialise in all areas of family/divorce and children law, concentrating more heavily, however, on ancillary relief/family finance and co-habitation issues since 1996. Between January 1993 and June 1998, David was employed as a senior solicitor in the family law department of Cole and Cole (now Morgan Cole) in Oxford, during which time he sat on the advisory committees for both a drop-in centre for young single mothers and the Ethnic Minority Business Service. David moved to London in June 1998 to join Fisher Meredith. Having spent almost 6 years (the last four of which as a Partner) with Fisher Meredith, in Decmber 2003 David determined that the time was right to take on a fresh challenge - to move on and go it alone. On April 16th 2004 David said goodbye to Fisher Meredith, ready to open a new chapter in his career - the task of setting up and running Josiah-Lake Solicitors. An active member of the Solicitors' Family Law Association, David is also a member of its London Region Committee. He has recently become a member of the Advisory Board for the University of Westminster LLB program. David is a member of The Law Society's Family Law Panel. He is an author/contributing editor for Butterworths' "Family Law Service" and more recently "The Accountants Legal Service", Sweet and Maxwell's "The Lawyers' Factbook" and received a co-authorship credit for his involvement in the Third Edition of Barlow's "Co-habitants and the Law" (published January 2002). David's advice on family finance issues have appeared in the finance/money sections of both the Daily Mail and Evening Standard newspapers and at www.thisismoney.com in the "Ask the Experts" section. David is an active member of Q’Pod (www.queerpod.co.uk), a group of lesbian and gay collaborative lawyers. Q’Pod specifically focuses on issues arising from same-sex relationships. Members of Q’Pod are gay and lesbian family lawyers who deal with issues like separation, child contact and residence and financial issues resulting from separation. Client Comment - Once again many thanks for all your help and I can't tell you what a relief it is to all be over..... Josiah-Lake Solicitors - 3rd floor, 47 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D 5BE - Telephone 020 7439 2900 - enquiries@josiah-lake.com