Lanyon Bowdler

Lanyon Bowdler is a full-service law firm operating across Shropshire, Herefordshire, and North Wales. The firm provides high-quality legal services with transparent pricing, delivering value through accessible, professional, and client-focused support for individuals, businesses, and communities.

The firm offers a credible alternative to city-centre law firms while maintaining strong knowledge and understanding of local markets and clients. Lanyon Bowdler has an established reputation throughout Shropshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, The Marches, and Mid and North Wales. The firm builds enduring relationships with clients, offering flexible pricing options that provide control and transparency over legal costs.

Lanyon Bowdler delivers practical advice and support across a comprehensive range of legal services. Business services include corporate and commercial law, employment law, commercial property and planning, dispute resolution, debt recovery, and mediation. Individual services cover clinical negligence and personal injury (claimant), family law including collaborative law, probate and trusts, wills and estate planning, residential conveyancing, and civil litigation.

The firm also provides specialist agricultural legal services and is appointed to the NFU’s national panel of solicitors, advising NFU members across Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire. Its team is experienced in areas including agricultural property, planning, commercial contracts, employment, disputes, family law, succession, tax planning, and wills and probate.

In corporate and commercial matters, the firm is consistently recommended by The Legal 500, with experience in corporate finance transactions, company and partnership law, and broader commercial law. The commercial dispute resolution and mediation team encourages negotiation, arbitration, and mediation, and maintains a strong track record in the County Court, High Court, and Court of Appeal. The team includes a CEDR-accredited mediator and a dedicated debt recovery unit providing bespoke solutions to local, national, and international clients.

The commercial property and planning team handles acquisitions, disposals, leasing, development, planning obligations, overage, asset management, and landlord-tenant matters for commercial, agricultural, and residential properties. A planning law specialist supports these services. Employment law specialists focus on employer-side matters, aiming to prevent disputes and resolve them efficiently when they arise.

The family law team manages matters from prenuptial and cohabitation agreements to divorce, civil partnership dissolution, and financial or children-related issues, including collaborative divorce led by two collaboratively trained lawyers. Personal injury and clinical negligence teams are nationally recognised for handling all types of medical and injury claims, including catastrophic injuries.

The private client team advises on wills, inheritance tax planning, trusts, probate, estate administration, and lasting powers of attorney. Additionally, the education team provides legal support to nurseries, schools, colleges, and academies, including guidance during academy conversions.

Languages
Welsh

Staffing Figures
27 Partners
4 Senior Associate Solicitors
19 Associate Solicitors
59 Other Fee-Earning Staff