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Overview
Jessica is a private client partner specialising in risk and disputes in relation to trusts and estates.
Awards & Accolades
Spears 500 2026 ranks Jessica Henson as ‘Top Recommended’ for Contentious Trust Lawyers with a focus on Tax and estate disputes.
The Legal 500 UK 2026 ranks Jessica Henson as a ‘Leading Partner’ for ‘Contentious Trusts and Probate’ and highlights Jessica Henson as a ‘Recommended Key Lawyer’ for the same category.
Spear’s UK 2025 ranks Jessica Henson as ‘Top Recommended’ for the ‘Trust and estate disputes’ within the ‘Contentious Trust Lawyers’ category. (Page 219)
Chambers UK Guide 2025 and Chambers HNW 2025 ranks Jessica Henson in Band 1 for ‘Private Wealth Disputes (London Firms)’.
The Legal 500 UK 2025 ranks Jessica Henson as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ for the ‘Private Client: Contentious Trusts and Probate’ category.
Ranked as Band 2 in Chambers HNW 2023
Comments in Chambers include:
“Jessica is really good and very commercial. Clients are in safe hands with her.”
“She is taking the private client world by storm and is a real breath of fresh air in any case or environment. She is sensible, commercially astute and very bright.”
“Jess is excellent. She is sensible, inspires confidence and is really a great lawyer.”
Ranked as Band 2 in Chambers HNW 2022 and as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 UK 2024 in the category of Contentious Trusts & Probate.
Comments in Chambers include:
Jessica Henson is “multi-talented in handling contentious, non-contentious work, as well as crossover between divorce and trusts work,” Chambers HNW 2022
“always adding strings to her bow,” contributes heavily to industry events and associations and is regarded as “one of the best private client partners in London” Chambers HNW 2022
“Jess has everything – tactical vision, client skills and is all over the detail.” Chambers HNW 2022
Comments in The Legal 500 UK include:
“all round superstar” Legal 500 UK 2023
“Jessica Henson is an excellent addition to the team. A real expert with great experience, she provides pragmatic and sensible advice to clients.” Legal 500 UK 2023
“knowledgeable and incisive” Legal 500 UK 2023
Also ranked as a “Top Recommended Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyer” in Spear’s 500 2024.
Jessica Henson is listed in the Spear’s Tax & Trust Adviser’s Index 2024 as a “Top Recommended ” Contentious Trust Lawyer.
Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite 2024 named Jessica in Tier 1 as one of the world’s elite private client lawyers with market-leading private wealth disputes law expertise advising ultra high net worth clients.
