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Professional Support Lawyers - PSLs - have been a central feature of large firms for some years, but they could benefit any firm, of any size. That is because they assist fee earners and free their time - by providing them with know-how, precedents and standard forms, doing research on their behalf, keeping them up to date and organising training.
The reason why smaller firms tend not to employ PSLs is simple. Their salaries are 85 - 100% of the equivalent fee earner salary, with a growing trend towards the higher end of this scale. Key PSLs at top firms are often paid £90K+ pa, with some getting £110K+ - especially in U.S. firms.
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Here are some of the people you will have working for you
Commercial & Corporate
Alison Mayfield
Solicitor, Commercial & Corporate
Alison specialises in commercial transactions. She has focused specifically on major outsourcing and services agreements and has acquired and disposed of LLPs and companies.
Alison’s in-house experience has been gained within the financial services sector (Winterthur Life UK Limited, Hazell Carr plc and Euler Trade Indemnity plc) whilst previously practising in private practice in dispute resolution matters for major financial institutions (DLA Piper Ruddick, Beachcrofts and Rosling King). Alison has experience of developing and launching long term savings products and project management as well as drafting commercial policies and being responsible for data protection.
Donald Cran
Solicitor, Commercial & Corporate
Donald specialises in commercial and corporate work. He has a broad range of experience in agency and distribution, intellectual property, telecoms, energy and general business transactions. He has experience of business in many countries in Europe, and in North America and North Africa.
He was previously Head of Legal at British Gas Business and at PA Consulting Group, building teams and handling acquisitions and disposals, governance and risk management, and dispute resolution as well as core commercial activities. Much of Donald’s work has been international, including a period in Paris as senior counsel at Nortel Europe, handling major customer relationships, leasing and financing arrangements, joint ventures and sale and support arrangements. Prior to his time in-house, Donald worked at Clifford Chance and Hopkins and Wood.
Sharon Mitchell
Solicitor, Commercial & Corporate
Sharon is a commercial and corporate lawyer with a considerable depth and breadth of experience. Although Sharon's commercial law expertise has focussed on IT and IP law, she also has a particular interest in competition law, and in consumer issues from the business perspective. She has advised across a wide range of domestic and international commercial areas, including access to markets, pharma and biotech, and direct selling. Sharon's company law expertise has focussed on advising private companies, entrepreneurs and financiers on a variety of matters, including buying and selling, re-organising, financing, and company secretarial issues.
Sharon's experience of practice is also wide ranging. After early partnership with Home Counties firm Taylor Walton, Sharon has worked in-house as counsel to a national housing association and in niche corporate and commercial practices before joining LexisNexis Butterworths from Davies Arnold Cooper.
Veronica Bailey
Solicitor, Commercial & Corporate
Veronica specialises in information technology, intellectual property, corporate and commercial matters. She is a panellist appointed by the Czech Arbitration Court to determine .EU domain name disputes as well as domain name disputes under the UDRP. She is a Pool Member for Nominet’s Second Level Domain Name Creation Process and between 2004-2007 was a Nominet appointed independent expert to decide .UK domain name disputes.
She qualified in Western Australia as a barrister and solicitor and practiced with Muir Williams (now Freehills) before moving to Singapore. After a number of years lecturing both in the UK and abroad she returned to practice and was made a partner in 2002, heading up the IT/IP team at Barlow Robbins LLP.
Jane Mayfield
Solicitor, Commercial & Corporate
Jane specialises in corporate finance, public and private mergers and acquisitions, disposals, investments and corporate restructurings as well as debt finance. She has experience in both domestic and international transactions.
Jane started her career as a trainee at PwCLegal (formerly Landwell) and went on to qualify into the corporate department. Prior to joining LexisNexis UK Jane worked as an associate at Rosenblatt solicitors in the corporate department and was involved with the development and maintenance of client relationships. Jane also spent time at Sodexho and Butcher Burns as a commercial and company lawyer.
Rakesh Bassi
Attorney, Commercial & Corporate
Rakesh’s experience covers a broad range of general commercial, corporate and corporate finance matters with particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. He has advised on a variety of domestic and cross-border mergers and takeovers, IPOs and joint ventures. In addition, Rakesh has advised on general commercial and corporate matters as well as various aspects of financial services law in the United Kingdom.
Prior to joining LexisNexis, Rakesh had worked at a leading international law firm based in London as well as at the London office of a major U.S. law firm. He has also gained commercial and corporate law experience in the Middle East, having been seconded to a law firm in Saudi Arabia.
Andrew Girverin
Solicitor, Commercial & Corporate
Andrew Giverin is the head of the outsourcing team at BLG. Andrew represents customers and suppliers worldwide in information technology and business process outsourcing transactions advising clients in connection with all aspects of the sourcing process in both sole source and competitive procurements including regarding applications development and maintenance, back office, desktop support, finance and accounting, help desk, insurance, logistics, retail, telcommunications and offshoring. Andrew is recommended for Outsourcing matters in Chambers and Partners, 2010.
Eversheds LLP is one of the largest international full service law firms with over 2,000 legal advisers across 42 offices in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In 2008/09 we won Law Firm of the Year at the British Legal Awards.
Richard Matthews authored the Product Liability Practice Notes and heads Eversheds pan-European Product Liability team, advising international businesses on crisis management in particular in the food, chemicals and consumer goods sectors.
Sarah Taylor authored the Consumer Terms and Unfair Trading Practice Notes and is a Regulatory lawyer with considerable experience of advising businesses on pricing, labelling, advertising and marketing issues. She focuses on the food and retail sectors.
Naomi Seward authored the Consumer Credit Practice Notes and is a key member of Eversheds Consumer Credit Group with nearly ten years experience working almost exclusively within the area of consumer credit and mortgages, both in-house and in private practice.
Rouse is a specialist intellectual property (IP) consultancy, with more than 500 people providing the full range of IP
services to many of the world’s leading IP owners. It has 19 offices in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, together with liaison offices in Australia and the US, and is regularly ranked among the leading IP practices in the jurisdictions in which it operates.
Rouse, and its affiliated UK law firm, Rouse Legal, and patent agency, Rouse Patents, offer a comprehensive range of IP legal services: IP registration; commercial deal structuring; enforcement and litigation; international anti-counterfeiting strategies (backed by its strong presence in China) and also offers consultancy services designed to leverage the value of IP assets, through licensing, joint ventures, acquisition and disposal.
A number of lawyers from Rouse contributed to LexisPSL, including: Chris Aikens; Nick Baker; Maura Canavan; Patsy Day; James Elliott ; Daniela Ferrari; Rachel Garratt; Ben Goodger; Martin Hyden; Rebecca Kaye; Ewen Mitchell; Hugh Tebay
Moorcrofts LLP is a niche corporate law practice providing specialist corporate, commercial, IP/IT, property and employment advice to knowledge-based industries in the Thames Valley and beyond.
Andrew Katz is head of the Moorcrofts LLP technology practice and authored the LexisPSL practice notes on open source software and. He has written and lectured extensively on open source issues and has advised a wide range of businesses from startups to multinationals on open source risk management, licensing and implementation.
Penningtons Solicitors LLP is a forward thinking, top 100 UK law firm which offers a broad range of legal services tailored to the needs of businesses and individuals from offices in London, Basingstoke and Godalming.
The main areas of practice are corporate and commercial, dispute resolution, property and private client. Its commitment to high quality legal advice is backed by a track record which dates back over 200 years. Several of our partners are recognised in Legal 500 and Chambers.
Sarah Cardew worked on the corporate tax topic in LexisPSl, including drafting for the Asset Purchase Agreement and Share Purchase Agreement, along with drafting notes She is a dedicated corporate tax specialist who joined Penningtons from Berwin Leighton Paisner in 2007 and became a partner in 2008. Sarah has specialised in all areas of corporate and property taxes since qualifying in 2000.
Employment
Philip Thornton
Barrister, Employment
Philip specialises in all areas of employment law, with a particular emphasis on litigation, as well as advisory work. He has considerable advocacy experience, in employment tribunals, County Courts, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He has practised extensively in the areas of discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE transfers, restrictive covenants, collective redundancies, wrongful and unfair dismissals and trade union and industrial dispute law.
He practised as a barrister for 17 years at the specialist employment law set, Devereux Chambers, before moving to LexisNexis in early 2006 to assist in the development of online employment law services.
Charlotte Hamer
Solicitor, Employment
Charlotte has a detailed knowledge of employment law and substantial experience of drafting current awareness for both lawyers and their clients as well as precedents and practice notes. She has also written employment articles and case reports for a number of specialist journals including Personnel Today and Company Secretary’s Review.
Having trained at Mills and Reeve, Charlotte moved on to what was then Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave, now Beachcroft LLP. She then moved to Stephenson Harwood becoming their first employment PSL and was latterly at Bond Pearce LLP before moving to LexisNexis. Both at Stephenson Harwood and Bond Pearce LLP Charlotte was substantially involved in providing training internally and for clients, as well as writing client briefings and assisting with business development.
Tony Gould
Solicitor, Employment
Tony is a specialist employment lawyer with many years of experience of advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters from drafting employment contracts to handling complex discrimination claims. As well as writing for LexisPSL he is an editor of Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law and a contributor to Tolley’s Employment Law Service.
Tony was previously a partner in the Employment department at Davenport Lyons. He was there for nearly 15 years and was the partner with responsibility for HR within the firm.
Melanie Adams
Solicitor, Employment
Melanie has specialised in employment law since 1996, when she joined Olswang, having trained and qualified at a well-known Reading firm. She advised extensively on all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law, particularly business and share sales, restrictive covenants and confidentiality, collective redundancies and business re-organisations, wrongful and unfair dismissal and discrimination issues. She became their first employment Professional Support Lawyer in 1999, and set up an extensive internal online know-how system, drafting precedents and practice notes and marshalling external resources, as well as producing client bulletins and internal current awareness briefings. She developed the employment team’s client extranet, which provides wideranging legal resources to clients, including basic guides to key areas of employment law and legislation and case trackers. She also wrote numerous articles for HR and legal journals and delivered training.
Melanie joined LexisNexis in early 2008. She is a contributing author to a major textbook on employee competition, covenants, confidentiality and garden leave.
Sam Burnett
Solicitor, Employment
Before qualifying as a solicitor with Eversheds in 2002, Sam had over nine years’ experience as a legal information professional, including posts at Linklaters and Freshfields. After qualifying, she worked as a Professional Support Lawyer specialising in employment law for six years, until joining LexisNexis in 2009.
She has considerable experience of writing a wide variety of materials for employment lawyers, including current awareness, precedents, practice notes and training materials, as well as producing external publications for clients such as briefing notes. Sam also has extensive experience in legal training.
Personal Injury
Jonathan Scriven
Solicitor, Dispute Resolution and Personal Injury
Jonathan has experience in all types of personal injury litigation and specialises in high value employers, public and product liability claims as well as representing companies in health and safety prosecutions.
Jonathan trained at Dolmans solicitors before moving to Greenwoods upon qualification where he acted for a range of composite insurers, liability adjustors, Lloyd's syndicates, private companies and plcs. Jonathan continued representing these clients when he moved to Housemans solicitors whom he helped to establish as a niche Defendant insurance practice and where he was promoted to Associate.
Tim Wakefield
Barrister, Dispute Resolution and Personal Injury
Tim has acted on behalf of Claimants and Defendants in a wide range of personal injury and medical negligence cases, including Employer's Liability, Local Authority, Disease and NHS Litigation Authority.
Tim was admitted to the Bar in 2001. Following the successful completion of his pupillage at Crown Office Chambers, he regularly appeared in both the County and High Courts on interim applications, final hearings and detailed assessments of costs. The cases he handled ranged in value and severity from minor whiplash claims to very serious brain injury cases.
Family
Claire Sanders
Solicitor, Family
Claire has almost twenty years of experience as a family solicitor. She specialises in all aspects of private family work including, resolving issues relating to property, money, and children arising on relationship breakdown between married and unmarried couples.
Claire worked as a family solicitor at Hart Brown solicitors in Surrey. She is an accredited specialist with Resolution with particular expertise in the areas of advanced financial provision and pensions. She is also on the Law Society Family Law Panel.
Geraldine Morris
Solicitor, Family
Geraldine is a family law specialist with particular expertise in cohabitants, civil partnership, financial provision, human rights and international family law. Geraldine is the technical editor of ans author for Butterworths Family Law Service (BFLS) and Butterworths Family and Child Law Bulletin. She is the editor of Family Law Journal and the Resolution journal, The Review. She has contributed articles on family law to numerous publications including New Law Journal, Family Law, the Law Society Gazette and the District Judge Law Bulletin. She has also been quoted in the press on family law issues in publications such as the Times and the Telegraph.
Geraldine was admitted as a solicitor in 1992 and was a partner and head of the family department at Hart Brown, a large Surrey firm. Geraldine was a member of the Law Society Family and Children Panels and an accredited Resolution Specialist with a focus on advanced financial provision and pensions. She is also a Resolution and ADR Group trained family and civil mediator.
Daniel Eames
Clarke Willmott
Daniel trained at a niche family law practice in London and was at Dawsons in Lincolns Inn before moving to Clarke Willmott in the South West. He is a Resolution accredited specialist in big money cases, and in European and International Family Law. Daniel is the Chair of Resolution's -International Committee.
Daniel specialises in complex financial disputes and a proportion of his cases have an international aspect. He is a trained collaborative lawyer and is the chair of the Somerset collaborative law group. He is noted in Chambers 2009 for his international work. Daniel writes regularly on international issues and has had articles published in Family Law, Family Law Journal and International Family Law. He is also an author for Resolution's forthcoming 3rd edition of International Aspects of Family Law.
Daniel contributed to the LexisPSL sections on international enforcement.
Sophie Briant
29 Bedford Row Chambers
Sophie is a barrister at 29 Bedford Row Chambers, a leading family law specialist set. Her practice encompasses all areas of family law. In addition to writing for LexisNexis, she regularly lectures on Children Act and other family proceedings.
Sophie has a first degree from Oxford University and a Masters degree from Brown University, USA. She completed her legal training at London Southbank University (GDL, distinction) and the College of Law (BVC, outstanding.) She is a Major Scholar of the Inner Temple, and was previously a scholar of both New College, Oxford, and of Brown University. Prior to training in law, among other things Sophie worked in the field of asylum and immigration.
Sophie contributed to the LexisPSL sections on emergency procedures – children.
Lynsey Cade Davies
29 Bedford Row Chambers
Lynsey Cade Davies is a barrister at 29 Bedford Row Chambers and specialises in all aspects of family law, notably ancillary relief, private law children applications, cohabitation disputes and inheritance act claims with particular focus on cases with an international dimension.
Lynsey contributed to the LexisPSL sections on emergency procedures - domestic violence.
Conrad Adam
Cumberland Ellis
Conrad Adam is a partner at Cumberland Ellis. He read law at University College London and has over 12 years experience of a wide range of family work including divorce, civil partnership, and children issues and cases relating to business assets and international movement of children. He has written for legal publications including Family Law Journal and The Review.
Conrad was a panel member at a LexisNexis family webinar and is currently writing a chapter on enforcement of financial orders for a forthcoming Resolution book on emergency remedies.
Conrad contributed to the LexisPSL sections on costs.
Graeme Fraser
Cumberland Ellis
Graeme is an associate with Cumberland Ellis and has over 12 years experience of conducting divorce, relationship breakdown and children cases. He is a Resolution accredited specialist with particular focus on complex financial and property matters and cohabitation. Increasingly, his work has an international aspect. Graeme is a member of the Resolution Cohabitation Working Party and has written for legal publications including Solicitors Journal and the Resolution Review.
Graeme contributed to the LexisPSL sections on pre-action – first interview.
Pannone LLP
Pannone LLP has one of the leading teams of family law solicitors in the UK with the single largest team of divorce lawyers in Manchester and the North West of England. The Legal 500 and the Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession consistently rank the department as number one for family law in the North West of England. All of the family lawyers are members of Resolution with nine Resolution accredited specialists, the largest number of any law firm in Manchester or the North West. Other lawyers in the team are advanced members of the Law Society Family Panel and several solicitors in the department are trained as collaborative lawyers. The family team at Pannone contributed to the financial provision sections of LexisPSL.
Contributors include:
Partners: Andrew Newbury, Liz Cowell, Beverley Darwent, Fiona Wood , Claire Young
Assistant solicitors: Vicki McLynn, Joanne Raisbeck, Ben Attwood, Claire Lawson, James Brown, Phillip Rhodes, Biba Geen, Clare Williams, Joanne Radcliff
Dispute Resolution
Amanda Wadey
Solicitor, Dispute Resolution
Amanda specialises in litigation practice and procedure and ADR. She has expertise in a range of areas from property litigation to professional negligence and also has experience of mediation. Amanda was previously a Pr
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