[WEBINAR] Family Conference 2020

Nigel Nicolls – Principal, Blanchfield Nicholls

First admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales in 1990 (and in England and Wales in 2004) Nigel has practised almost exclusively in family law for his entire career.

From 1997 to 1999 he was a Registrar and Mediator of the Family Court of Australia, before returning to private practice as a Partner of Stuart Fowler & Partners

In 2004, Nigel practised in the United Kingdom as a child care solicitor and then as an associate with Taylor Vinters Solicitors in Cambridge, a general commercial and litigation practice of 100 partners and solicitors, in the specialist family law team.

Nigel has been a part-time lecturer and tutor at the University of Technology, Sydney, lecturing in the family law undergraduate program and conducting graduate program seminars in legal practice, including negotiation techniques, mediation skills and court presentation.

In 2000, Nigel was a member of the NSW Law Society Family Law Committee and in 2002 was appointed a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He was named the inaugural President of the Asia Pacific Chapter of the IAFL and is now immediate past president of the IAFL.

Nigel is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Practice (IACP) and was previously a member of IACP’s Australia and South East Asia Committee.

Nigel was previously the convenor of the Central Sydney Collaborative Forum and continues to train new lawyers in interdisciplinary collaborative practice. Nigel is also a member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and was a member of the Law Council's Collaborative Law Committee.

Nigel has been recognised as a Leading Sydney Family & Divorce Lawyer by the independently researched and peer nominated Doyles Guide in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, as well as a Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyers – NSW in 2020, by the independently researched and peer nominated Doyles Guide.