Parvien Akhtar

Council member for Ethnic Minority Solicitors

Date elected to councilOct 2025

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Parvien Akhtar has been practising law for more than 25 years, specialising in litigation and family law.

Parvien completed her training in Central London, qualifying as a solicitor in 1998.

Parvien was appointed to the Law Society's Small Firms Network Committee in 2019 and is now vice chair.

She is a long-standing committee member of the Leicestershire Law Society and chair of the Education and Training sub-board. She is also a committee member of the Midland Asian Lawyers Association.

In recognition of her contribution to the legal industry, Parvien was shortlisted as a Law Society Legal Hero in 2023 and named Solicitor of the Year by the Leicestershire Law Society in 2022.

Parvien is also an SQE examiner for Kaplan.

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Area of practice

Civil litigation; commercial litigation; family

Groups/boards served on

Small Firms Network Committee (vice chair)

Languages spoken

English, Punjabi and Urdu