The Past, Present, and Future ============================= ![Vardags: The Past, Present, and Future](https://vardags.com/images/pictures/_360/e7c4b89a47216ef8108c20e901843c1f.jpeg)Vardags President Ayesha Vardag spoke to [The Brief](https://www.bcllegal.com/the-brief/opinion/ayesha-vardag-president-of-vardags-on-the-firm-its-history-next-chapter) ahead of the 10thanniversary of her founding the firm about Vardags' meteoric rise to the top of family law and plans for future expansion. Ayesha explained the humble origins of the firm, which is now the largest family practice in the capital. "*Vardags began out of the spare bedroom of my Islington home ten years ago. Having cut my teeth in the field (I was hired by my divorce lawyer when going through my own divorce, after using my experience as a finance solicitor to undertake a lot of the groundwork for the case) I took a leap of faith and decided to go it alone*," she said. Focusing on her inexorable rise, she added "*After securing my first client, a multimillion award in a case that was published in the law reports, business became busier and busier and new successes quickly followed. Our biggest success came with my Supreme Court victory in the 2010 Radmacher case, which changed the law on prenups and made them enforceable in England and Wales. It was a momentous moment for me personally, the small firm - as it then was - that I'd built up from nothing, and for family law. It was also a real blow struck for autonomy in modern marriages and a moment where we really felt we'd tapped into the zeitgeist for change at that time and pushed it through to fruition*." Looking back on the ten years, she spoke of the firm's innovative approach to family law and the success that had brought, before adding details of planned expansion into Winchester and the Middle East. "Ayesha Vardag - Britain's top divorce lawyer." ![The Huffington Post](https://vardags.com/images/logo/huffpost.png) "Ayesha Vardag - Woman of the Year"![GG2](https://vardags.com/images/logo/gg2-3.png) "Leading, Magic Circle law firm."Mr Justice Coleridge "A handful of firms dominate the so-called 'glamour' end of the market ... Vardags"The Times "One of the best divorce lawyers in the country"Marie Claire "Ayesha Vardag - 'diva of divorce' for the world's super rich" ![BBC](https://vardags.com/images/logo/bbc.png) "Dr Stephen Bence is a financial genius."Lewis Marks KC "Ayesha Vardag - the Queen of divorce"Daily Mail "Vardags brilliantly argued my case to a resounding victory"Pauline Chai (client) "Britain's top divorce lawyer" ![The Telegraph](https://vardags.com/images/logo/telegraph.png) Articles by John Oxley ---------------------- [Partnership with Trench & Associates](https://vardags.com/posts/partnership-trench-associates "Partnership with Trench & Associates") [The fathers who only see their children on a computer screen](https://vardags.com/posts/fathers-see-children-computer-screen "The fathers who only see their children on a computer screen") [The Past, Present, and Future](https://vardags.com/posts/vardags-past-present-future "The Past, Present, and Future") ['I'd never know when or if he was coming back': Top divorce lawyer Ayesha Vardag on how her charming but absent father shaped her life](https://vardags.com/posts/id-never-know-when-or-if-he-was-coming-back-top-divorce-lawyer-ayesha-vardag-on-how-her-charming-but-absent-father-shaped-her-life "'Id never know when or if he was coming back': Top divorce lawyer Ayesha Vardag on how her charming but absent father shaped her life") [Catherine Thomas in Glamour Magazine: "What I've Learned From Work"](https://vardags.com/posts/catherine-thomas-speaks-glamour-magazine-ive-learned-work "Catherine Thomas in Glamour Magazine: 'What I've Learned From Work'")