Harriet Reid joins Wetherby's Family Law Department

Harriet Reid joined Ware & Kay’s Wetherby Family Department in April 2009, having previously worked in our York office for a period to cover maternity leave. Born in York, Harriet (pictured right) studied for her law degree in Bristol and attended York College of Law. She trained and subsequently practised at a firm of solicitors in Reading, where she was made an Associate in 1996. Moving to head the Family Department at an Aylesbury law firm in 2000, she was made a partner the following year.

Harriet recently moved back to Yorkshire, along with her husband and three children. She is very active in the local community, chairing the parent teachers’ association at her children’s school and sitting on committees for both the local tennis club and the village gala. A keen runner, Harriet belongs to the Easingwold Running Club and is currently training for the Great North Run, in order to raise money for the children’s charity, St Martin’s House.

Thanks to her mother’s role as a Justice of the Peace, Harriet was introduced to law at an early age. As a child, she would accompany her mother to the magistrates’ court and it was from this early experience that her interest in law developed. Although ultimately choosing a legal career, she would have liked to have been a vet and has filled this gap by dog breeding; her family now has three generations of Cocker Spaniels.

Harriet acts for a broad range of clients including those in business and healthcare/medical and teaching professions, high net worth individuals, civil servants, carers, housewives, stay at home parents, the finance and banking industries and the police.

The first half hour of a client’s initial consultation with Harriet or any of Ware & Kay’s Family solicitors is offered free of charge.

Ware & Kay’s Wetherby Office is ideally located for ease of access from and to Harrogate and Leeds. The office is in an historic Manor House with surrounding gardens and free on-site parking for clients.