Karen Barham

Karen has the full range of skills and I watch her effortlessly be authoritative one moment or dispel tension with humour the next, as well as keep the parties feeling safe and willing to progress.

Karen Barham is an excellent mediator with a lot of skill and an ability to progress the most intractable matters.

Karen is a very safe pair of hands and a skilled mediator. She engenders trust and confidence.

Karen Barham is an imaginative and brilliant mediator bringing a real talent to solving difficult and challenging family breakdowns. She has a real knack of taking clients with her. Technically brilliant with a fine attention to detail. Charismatic and persuasive mediator. A tremendous lateral thinker. Extremely good at negotiation. Always popular with clients.

Karen Barham is in my view one of the best mediators in the country. She is quite simply brilliant and is a leading light in the legal community both locally in Surrey and nationwide.

Karen Barham has phenomenal energy and is passionate about mediation. She has experience in dealing with the most difficult of cases and is a child-inclusive mediator. There is a plain honesty in her manner and she exudes confidence.

Karen is one of the best mediators in the country.

Her real strength is in her communication skills, which are exemplary. She marries empathy and understanding with a no-nonsense approach and all delivered in language accessible to the clients and with a great sense of humour.

Karen Barham is the real deal – an incredibly skilled mediator, has seen every case before and brings a wealth of experience, acumen and common sense to her work

Karen Barham is an excellent, highly experienced and hands-on mediator. She gets to the heart of the matter very quickly, and clients have reported to me that she works very hard to achieve solutions. She is empathetic and hugely practical.

Karen Barham- she is equipped with humour, staying power, wisdom, experience, authority but she also engages at a deep level and I think ensures that people feel properly understood. I have sent her some truly monstrous cases for resolution and they keep bobbing to the surface!

Karen Barham is very experienced, endlessly helpful and flexible and innovative in her mediation practice. She is also a delightful person.

Karen Barham is a stand-out mediator, collaborative lawyer and member of Resolution, wholly committed to the code of practice, and a valued and very experienced family lawyer. Having now dealt with her in a hybrid mediation, I am impressed by her legal knowledge, ability, communication and sheer hard work. She uses some innovative strategies. Mastering Zoom for a hybrid 5 way mediation cannot have been fun.

Karen Barham is without doubt the ‘go to’ mediator in the area. Her skill and experience is unrivalled, particularly when dealing with challenging and difficult circumstances. She is more than a safe pair of hands, clients warm to her and she gets the job done.

Karen Barham stands out as a top quality mediator. She has a style that encourages dialogue and understanding. Karen is particularly good at dealing with separating cohabiting couples. Her knowledge of family law is extensive and she takes a proactive approach to assisting mediation clients resolve issues.