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Meet the Specialists
Melanie Dunton
Melanie Dunton – a Senior Partner and Head of Private Client Department
Melanie is the head of our Private Client Department and has over 30 years’ legal experience. In this position she is the supervisor for the work the firm carries out on Wills, trusts, probate and conveyancing.
Melanie has a wealth of experience having practised both as a solicitor and mediator. She currently assists clients with their Wills, Probates and Trusts. In the past she headed our family department.
During her career she has helped generations of families and has dealt with over 1000 probates, wills and financial remedy family cases. Melanie tends to work on cases with complex issues, and to date has worked on more than 100 contested probate cases.
Rae Broughton
Rae Broughton – Solicitor
Rae qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and has over 20 years’ experience in property and private client work.
Joining Thomas Dunton in 2011, she has worked for many hundreds of clients and splits her time working on commercial property, including leases; and Wills, LPAs, Probate and related matters.
She is also a specialist in the sale and purchase of businesses.
Rae’s work is supervised by Melanie Dunton, a senior partner.
Aylin Osman
Aylin Osman – Property Solicitor
Aylin Osman joined the Thomas Dunton conveyancing team as a property solicitor in our in November 2021.
Aylin brings over 21 years post-qualification experience in residential and commercial property transactions, ranging from high value estates to studio flats for both personal and investment purposes. Her wealth of expertise includes helping clients with shared ownership schemes, key worker purchases, re-mortgages, deeds of variation, auction sales and purchases, plot sales and purchases, new build purchases, right to buy purchases, first registrations and declarations of trust to records shares in property.
Away from property law, Aylin enjoys painting, playing the piano, horse riding and karate having earned her black belt.