David Salter: retirement interview part 1 - “Highly qualified people prefer big, commercial firms. They do not appreciate what family law has to offer.”

After a career spanning nearly 5 decades former Resolution chair David Salter recently retired as joint national head of family law at Mills & Reeve.   

Family Law invited Salter to reflect on a long and diverse career during which the legislative framework in family law changed dramatically.  

In the first instalment of a wide-ranging 2-part interview Salter opens up about the highlights of his career the major legislative changes he witnessed over the course of half a century who he looks up to in family law and which rules or law he would change in a heartbeat.

David Salter