Meet Nicola Wallace

Nicola Wallace

Job Title: Family and Civil & Commercial Mediator
Firm: 4PB

Prior to her call to the Bar in 2006, Nicola was a Solicitor and Partner in private practice for 15 years.  Throughout her career, she has specialised exclusively in Family Law.

Nicola has extensive experience of all aspects of private and publicly funded work, including care proceedings (remaining on the Children Panel until her transfer to the Bar in 2006). She is both a Civil and Commercial and Family Mediator.  She undertakes hybrid mediations.

From 2006, her specialised practice has centred entirely on private financial remedy cases, high net worth clients, private law children matters, TOLATA and Family Law Act matters.

Year of Call: 2006

Training and Mediation Experience
Trainer for Resolution
Trainer for Bar Council
Regular In-house Trainer
Trainer for ADRg (civil and commercial mediation)
Family Mediator (Resolution)
Accredited Mediator ADRg (civil and commercial)
Accredited Mediator RICS (civil and commercial)
Accredited Trainer for the Bar Council and for Resolution
Accredited Faith Dispute Mediator (BIMA)
Workplace Mediator (CEDR)
Panel Member ADR-ODR International
Panel Member CAfA (Court of Arbitration for Art, The Hague)

Education
1986: Diplôme Programme de Civilisation Française et Européene Contemporaine
1988: BA (Hons) Law and French
1989: Solicitors Finals
Law Society Prize: Innes and Howard Watson Prize for Family Law
1991: Admitted as a solicitor
2006: Called to the Bar (Inner Temple)
2015: MSc Art Law & Business (Distinction) (Christie’s/University of Glasgow)
2016: Harvard Law School: Advance Mediation – Mediating Complex Disputes

Professional Memberships
Member of the Inner Temple
Mediation Member of Resolution
Member of Art Resolve
Member of the Family Mediation Council
Accredited Bar Council Lecturer
Member Bar Council Public Access Panel
Member of Resolution Training and Learning Committee