Desmond O'Donnell
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Family/Matrimonial
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
01892 701315Share profile
Band 2
About
Provided by Desmond O'Donnell
Practice Areas
Desmond is a partner in the family law department. He handles most areas of family breakdown including, financial claims and Children Act proceedings.
Career
Desmond qualified in 1985. He joined Bindmans in London in 1987 before leaving England to live in California in 1997. He passed the Californian Bar Examination in 1998 and practised law in Santa Monica for one year before returning to work for a specialist family law firm in Northern Ireland in 1999. Desmond joined Thomson Snell & Passmore in 2005.
Professional Memberships
Desmond is a member of Resolution (formerly Solicitor's Family Law Association). He was the English Law Society's representative on the National Victim Support Working Party on Domestic Violence (1992).
Publications
Desmond has had various articles published in various magazines and online national and local publications.
Personal
Desmond is a former schoolboy international athlete and still competes regularly in marathons.
Chambers Review
UK
Desmond O'Donnell handles matters relating to divorce proceedings, including private children work and complex finance cases involving offshore assets, company shareholdings and pensions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Desmond has a lovely style, he takes clients under his wing and looks after them. His cases always run smoothly and there is never any unnecessary hostility - it is always very pragmatic."
"Desmond has a lovely style, he takes clients under his wing and looks after them. His cases always run smoothly and there is never any unnecessary hostility - it is always very pragmatic."
Discover other Lawyers at
Thomson Snell & Passmore
The South
