Lisa Ginesi

Lisa Ginesi is a partner in our dispute resolution and advisory team.

Her litigation practice is predominantly property-based with particular expertise in landlord and tenant disputes, dilapidation issues and enfranchisement. Lisa advises on a wide variety of issues offering both residential and commercial properties and affecting landlord and tenant.  She also regularly advises on debt recovery matters and contract disputes.

In her work Lisa actively looks for ways cost effectively to resolve differences clients have with third parties – by negotiation, by court process, by self-help remedies or by alternative dispute resolution. She expects to demonstrate to the other side the strength of our client’s case cogently and early but if there is no willingness to listen and negotiate, she enjoys driving hard to stop people playing the credit game against our clients.

Early in her career Lisa had the privilege of being part of the team which took a highly technical lease renewal case to the House of Lords (P&O v Graysim) and a few years ago she enjoyed pushing for a landlord a forfeiture and lease renewal case to a full hearing at a County Court where the tenant won no more than a pyrrhic victory in terms of the basis on which relief from forfeiture and a new lease were ordered to be available. Lisa knows how to feel that the loss of a battle was what achieved victory in a war.

Lisa was educated at Haydon Bridge High School in Northumberland and then studied law at Thames Valley University. A gap year was spent travelling extensively around continental Europe. Lisa was admitted as a solicitor in 1992, having trained and qualified at Carter Lemon Camerons.

As well as being a member of the Law Society, Lisa is a member of the Association of Women Solicitors and the Property Litigation Association.

Outside the office, Lisa enjoys her family – husband and two daughters – and is a dog lover, so gets plenty of exercise walking with her Westie.