Our team

Natalie Gamble

Natalie is known internationally, not only as the UK's leading fertility lawyer but also for her gentle tenacity which has enabled much needed changes in the UK legal system. Inspired by the lack of expert legal advice available when she built her own donor-conceived family in 2001, Natalie pioneered the creation of fertility law in the UK, first at the law firm where she worked between 2001 and 2009 and then by setting up her own specialist firm.

A passionate champion of same-sex parents and fertility patients, Natalie has for many years been at the forefront of making law in Parliament (see our campaigning page) and in court (see our leading fertility law cases). She was named in the Independent on Sunday's Pink List as one of the 100 most influential gay people in the UK, and in 2010 invited to meet Prime Minister at a 10 Downing Street reception in recognition of her work. Natalie has also been nominated for the Stonewall Hero of the Year Award and named as the Times Lawyer of the Week. She is a frequent BBC interviewee and national press commentator and has written for the Guardian (see our media page). She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Infertility Network UK and a member of the American Bar Association's Assisted Reproductive Technology Committee. Natalie currently sits as a member of the HFEA's expert oversight group on mitochondrial disease.

Contact Natalie at:

natalie@nataliegambleassociates.com

Tel. 0844 357 1603 (from outside the UK +44 1202 373400)

Helen Prosser

Caring, energetic and creative, Helen supports the firm in a management role. With nearly 20 years' experience in marketing and business development in both the legal and the commercial world, she worked with Natalie at the early stages of her career supporting her focus on fertility law, re-joining the team in 2011.

Helen is responsible for our business development and direction, as well as managing the firm. Our work goes beyond our client work, and Helen spearheads our campaigning and drives the firm’s innovative approach. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Gamete Donation Trust and one of the few international members of the American Bar Association's Assisted Reproductive Technology committee.

Contact Helen at:
helen@nataliegambleassociates.com

Tel. 0844 357 1604 (from outside the UK +44 1202 373400)

Sarah Wood-Heath

Since qualifying as a solicitor in 2007, Sarah has specialised solely in family law, including divorce and civil partnership dissolutions, co-habitation disputes and private children law cases including:

Complex contact and residence disputes
Child abduction
Special guardianship applications
Injunctions and public child law cases
Surrogacy and donor conception.

Sarah has a particular background working with alternative families and joined the team in 2012 after working in London. She supports all our work as well as having particular responsibility for contentious matters. Sarah understands the difficulties that can arise from a family breakdown and is sympathetic and caring, dealing with matters professionally and compassionately. Sarah is a member of Resolution.

Contact Sarah at:

sarahwh@nataliegambleassociates.com

Tel. 0844 456 0017 (from outside the UK +44 1202 373400)

Nicola Scott

Nicola is passionate and empathetic and often the first port of call for clients seeking insight into the complexities of fertility law. As the firm's first trainee solicitor, Nicola assists Natalie and Sarah with the firm’s legal work.

Nicola’s existing passion for fertility law stemmed from her law degree. She received a first-class mark for her final year dissertation on donor conception, surrogacy, parental status, and the differences between the legal treatment of heterosexual, gay, single and transgender parents, the availability of identifying information about donors, and the parental responsibility of mothers, fathers, and non-biological parents.

Contact Nicola at:
nicola@nataliegambleassociates.com
Tel. 0844 357 1638 (from outside the UK +44 1202 373400)

Sarah Adlem

Positive, calm and approachable, Sarah provides invaluable support in all aspects of the team’s legal work, as well as managing the office. Having worked with Natalie previously, Sarah rejoined Natalie and the team in November 2010. Her wealth of office experience, both outside and within the legal field, and specifically relating to fertility law, ensures the safe running of our office and our work.

Contact Sarah at:
sarah@nataliegambleassociates.com
Tel. 0844 357 1602 (from outside the UK +44 1202 373400)