Lynn Crabtree notches up thirty years as a qualified solicitor.

Care child specialist Lynn Crabtree has been celebrating recently after notching up thirty years as a qualified solicitor.

After studying at Keele University and the College of Law at Chester, Lynn qualified as a Solicitor on the 16^th January 1989. Since then Lynn has amassed three decades of experience working in Children Law throughout Kirklees and Calderdale. Lynn was Head of the Child Care team at Kirklees Council and became a member of the Law Society’s Children’s Panel in 2000. Later the same year Lynn joined Wilkinson Woodward, becoming a partner in 2007 and a director in 2012.

As one of the area’s most respected children law specialists, Lynn spends most of her time in local family courts, acting on behalf of the Local Authority, parents or children.

Lynn, who is based at our Huddersfield office, is married to fellow director, commercial and property specialist, Andrew Crabtree.Outside work, Lynn is a keen skier and walker who loves nothing more than a long walk in the Yorkshire Dales.