About Adrian Berkeley

Adrian Berkeley is the founder and senior member of LawFriend. He is a retired Solicitor who qualified in 1993. Adrian spent his first years as part of Donns and Fentons solicitors litigation legal teams. From 1996 until 2015 Adrian  headed his own Legal Aid Practice, Berkeley Solicitors in East Manchester.

 

Adrian retired his formal qualification as a Solicitor in 2015 due to ill health and was formerly removed from the Solicitors Roll in 2026 by a decision of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

His formal Solicitor education was at Liverpool John Moores University and Chester School of Law.

Adrian has further qualifications in Litigation Tactics, Litigation Mental Reasoning, NLP and Trauma, and Jewish Philosophy. He uses his wide training and experience to bring a realistic mindset to the complicated arena of Litigation. Adrian brings warmth and empathy to the harsh complexity that makes up the English Legal System.