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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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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.
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 Professional Support Lawyer at CMS Cameron McKenna where she supported 150 litigators. She trained at Rosling King and on qualification specialised in professional negligence and property litigation, including landlord and tenant disputes. At Travers Smith she gained further experience of both property litigation and commercial litigation.
Janna Purdie
Solicitor, Dispute Resolution
Janna specialises in international dispute resolution and has expertise in a range of areas and a specific interest in arbitration and adjudication. Janna trained at Herbert Smith and practised in the area of general litigation. On moving to Denton Wilde Sapte, she specialised in large scale international arbitration and litigation cases. She was also actively involved in the provision of in-house lectures and workshops. Janna is a frequent contributor to the legal and professional press, including the New Law Journal.
Shantanu Majumdar
Barrister, Dispute Resolution
Shantanu Majumdar was called to the bar in 1992 and is a barrister at Radcliffe Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn and has a broad commercial and commercial chancery practice which includes professional negligence. He continues, from a past life, to do some employment work.
He also has an expertise in the recondite but rather important field of limitation and has written widely on the subject including the commentary in volume 2 of the Civil Court Practice (“The Green Book”) and a number of chapters in Tottel’s Law of Limitation.
4 Pump Court is one of the leading sets of barristers’ chambers specializing in construction law. In addition to its weight and breadth of experience in litigation and arbitration, its members include experts in all aspects of adjudication, from making or resisting applications to enforce adjudication decisions, to advising on jurisdictional or procedural issues, drafting notices of adjudication and legal submissions or appearing at adjudication hearings to cross-examine witnesses or make submissions. Several members of Chambers are themselves experienced adjudicators.
A team of barristers from 4 Pump Court have written the Adjudication section of Lexis PSL and keep it up to date. These are: Sean Brannigan QC, Alexander Hickey, Claire Packman and James Bowling.
www.4pumpcourt.com
Property
Malcolm Dowden
Solicitor, Property
Malcolm is a property law specialist with broad experience of commercial and residential transactions and property dispute resolution. He is the author of EG Books’ Practitioner’s Guide to the Land Registration Act 2002 and Climate Change, Law Policy and Practice. He is a frequent contributor to the legal and professional press, including the Estates Gazette and the New Law Journal.
After qualifying at Linklaters in 1994, Malcolm worked at Nabarro Nathanson and subsequently at Charles Russell as an Associate in the Real Estate team. His experience at Charles Russell included acting for landowners and telecommunications companies on complex electronic communications code issues. He retains a role as property law consultant with Charles Russell.
Paul Girvan
Lawyer, Property
Paul is a commercial property specialist with a particular interest in urban regeneration projects and property finance.
He spent six years as an Associate at Allen & Overy. His work there included the Canary Wharf and Water Industry Privatisation Projects. After setting up his own Property Law Practice in 1995, he went on to undertake consultancy work for a range of law firms in and out of the City – most recently at Hammonds in Birmingham.
Joanna Bhatia
Joanna is a commercial property specialist. She has wide-ranging experience of all non-contentious property transactions, with emphasis on landlord and tenant work.
Joanna qualified at Shoosmiths in 1995, moving to Nabarro in 2000. In 2005 she embarked on a career as a locum, which, to date, includes working at Charles Russell, Bircham Dyson Bell and Pemberton Greenish.
She is also a property law consultant and has been contributing to the development of LexisPSL since December 2008. She has authored materials on general property matters such as options and pre-emption rights, energy performance, rights of way and land registry matters and landlord and tenant issues including repairs, commercial service charges, surrenders, alienation, break rights and vacant possession.
She has contributed to the Butterworths Property Law Newsletter.
Elinor worked as a transactional lawyer in London for nine years. She heard about the Legal Intelligence Network from someone she used to work with. Elinor is now enjoying writing practice notes for LexisNexis, applying her practical experience to the finer detail of the law.
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Wills & Probate
Lisa Carkeek
Solicitor, Wills & Probate
Lisa's experience covers all aspects of traditional private client law, including wills and probate at every level, the creation, administration and termination of trusts and mitigating tax exposure. Lisa has a particular interest in sophisticated international tax planning.
Lisa started her legal career as a trainee at Palmer Cowen in Mayfair and went onto qualify into the Tax Department of SJ Berwin. Prior to joining LexisNexis UK Lisa worked as a Senior Solicitor in the Private Individuals Division of Penningtons.
Before embarking on her UK legal career Lisa lived in the USA whilst employed as the Protocol Officer of the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa, Washington D.C. She also lived in Saudi Arabia whilst she was employed by the Saudi Arabian Department of Defence and Aviation in Riyadh.
Malcolm Skinner
Solicitor, Wills & Probate
Malcolm specialises in Private Client work with particular emphasis on wills and probate. He also has experience of the contentious side of wills and trusts.
He has been involved in the law since 1972, training and qualifying in private practice where he remained for all but the two years he spent qualifying as a teacher and gaining practical experience of lecturing to and teaching lawyers. He has been a partner in a number of provincial firms as well as in a niche City practice. His experience encompasses dealing with the basic elements of private client to advising HNW clients. He also has experience of dealing with elderly client and mental capacity issues and acting for charitable and ecclesiastical organisations.
Local Government
Bethan Evans
Partner, Bevan Brittan LLP
Bethan co-ordinates her firm’s work across key areas of activity involving central and local government, audit and regulatory bodies, and government agencies.
She also personally advises local authorities and other public bodies on governance, vires and a range of matters including: issues concerning elected members’ interests, the code of conduct and liabilities on outside bodies, local authority companies and the power to trade and charge, and joint venture and partnership vehicles.
Bethan has 18 years experience of law and governance in local government. Prior to joining Bevan Brittan she worked for four councils and as the Executive Director for a Welsh local government organisation. She has managed internal legal services, commissioned external legal support on major projects and undertaken individual casework.
Bethan is a contributor to the LexisPSL section on Local Government Law Contracts and Procurement.
Clients admire the broad and ‘faultless’ practice at Trowers & Hamlins, with the Public Sector Commercial team, led by Helen Randall, a clear market leader. The firm plays a central, innovative role in policy making and the evolution of housing and regeneration projects building a nationwide reputation for providing timely, expert legal advice to local authorities. It has been involved in a substantial number of PFI/PPP schemes and regeneration projects and is well known for advising local authorities on construction and partnering contracts.
Paul McDermott and James Hawkins authored practice notes on procurement and PPP/PFI. Paul specialises in advising Councils on major housing PFI/PPP projects and major regeneration projects, working with a range of local authorities, registered social landlords and other public sector organisations to develop public-private schemes and create structures which enable multi agency service delivery to be effective. James specialises in major project work in the waste, housing, regeneration and care sectors, and has particular experience in the provision of advice to Councils on the legal issues generated by the creation and structuring of local authority companies.
Ian Doolittle is head of the firm’s Public Sector - Communities and Governance department, specialising in public sector housing law. He has led teams on a large number of housing stock transfers, has expertise on arms length housing management companies and local housing companies advising on establishment of many ALMOs and pilot councils. Ian authored the practice notes on housing policy.
Other contributors from Trowers & Hamlins include Amardeep Gill and Francesca Mohan on strategic service partnerships, Lucy Doran on procurement law, Emma Burrows, Richie Alder and Nicola Ihnatowicz on TUPE within PFI/PPP.
Peter Keith-Lucas
Partner, Bevan Brittan LLP
Peter regularly advises authorities and members on standards and audit issues. He also specialises in local authority charging and trading powers, as well as partnering arrangements between the public and private sectors.
A former local authority Chief Executive and Head of Legal Services, Peter combines 25 years working in local authorities with a nationally recognised expertise in the area of local authority decision-making and corporate governance. He has established a national reputation as an expert on local authority constitutions and has specifically sought to develop means to secure more openness and accountability in the executive decision-making process.
Peter is also a popular lecturer on Rights of Access to Information.
Peter is a contributor to the LexisPSL section on Local Government Law Contracts and Procurement.
Claire Booth
Professional Support Lawyer, Bevan Brittan LLP
Claire’s work involves providing Bevan Brittan’s Public Sector Commercial team with a comprehensive and focused information and research service. She produces several email alerts, including the highly regarded fortnightly Authority Update, that is sent to over 500 people in local authorities and associated public bodies.
Claire also edits Bevan Brittan’s client newsletter, Authority View. She organises legal training for her team, and helps with external seminars. She keeps a watching brief for developments that impact her team’s work and also carries out ad hoc research. Claire is a qualified solicitor, as well as holds a qualification in library and information studies. She has many years experience in legal information and knowledge management work.
Claire is a contributor to the LexisPSL section on Local Government Law Contracts and Procurement.
Mark Cook
Transformation team, Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP
Mark advises principally upon service delivery, strategic procurements, facilities management and the private finance initiative. He is widely regarded as one of the most innovative lawyers in his specialist fields and has had considerable involvement with EC public procurement, UK tendering legislation and Best Value.
Mark is contributor to the best value know-how.
Kuljit Bhogal
Barrister, 2-3 Gray’s Inn Square
Kuljit has particular expertise in housing, community care, judicial review, regulatory crime and landlord and tenant. She acts for a wide range of local authority and private clients.
Kuljit has extensive experience in housing with recent work including community care issues, mental health and DDA 1995 points, claims for possession, all grounds, nuisance, Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, housing management issues including succession and unlawful subletting, service charge and Right to Buy disputes, unlawful eviction and lease/licence distinction.
Kuljit is contributor to housing provision, capacity and succession know-how.
Nicholas Hancox
Nicholas Hancox Solicitors
Nicholas Hancox founded his local government law firm, Nicholas Hancox Solicitors, in 2003. Prior, Nick worked for 20 years in local government, including four years as Director of Legal Services with Norfolk County Council.
The firm’s education clients include local education authorities and independent schools, church schools and faith schools. Highways clients of the firm are local highway authorities and the other owners and users of highway land.
Nick is an established author and his published work includes “Highways Law and Practice” (2002) and Butterworths’ Law of Education (loose-leaf and on-line), together with volumes of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents (Education), Halsbury’s Laws of England (Highways) and part of Butterworths’ Personal Injury Litigation Service. He is the Editor of the Law of Education Bulletin and writes articles for the New Law Journal.
Nick is contributor to highways and education know-how.
David Ryden
Principal Legal Advisor, Care Quality Commission
David has specialised for 25 years in area of child protection, working as social services legal team manager at the City of Bradford District Council and for other councils.
He has held positions such as member of West Yorkshire Family Justice Council, legal advisor to the adoption panel, Area Child Protection Committee and then the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board in Bradford. He is a member of the Legal Group Advisory Committee of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) and publishes ‘Social Care Legal Newsletters’.
David is contributor on the adoption and childcare know-how.
Gayle Monk
Transformation team, Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP
Gayle provides support to the Best Value Projects Group on a range of projects, including a focus on local government law and social issues in public procurement. Gayle has particular expertise in all the issues relating to sustainable procurement, with a particular focus on low carbon communities and renewable energy.
Gayle is contributor to the best value know-how.
John Layton
Director, John Layton Associates Limited
John is a Chartered Accountant, Member of CIPFA and has been providing advice to the public and private sector for over 30 years. John’s expertise in local government finance, partnerships, procurement, alternative service delivery methods and has a comprehensive understanding of public sector services and related audit law.
Previous experience includes:
- Technical Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers and creator of aslac – the advisory service for the use of local authority companies
- Research for the prudential capital control system for the Local Government Act 2003 and Code of Prudential Borrowing
- ODPM Taskforce knowledge programme and author of many DCLG publications including Structures for Partnership and Rethinking Service Deliver PPPs
- Chair of local authority SORP preparing body.
- He has advised local authorities in dealing with partnership projects embracing a wide range of local authority services including social services, direct services, central services, ICT, as well as joint working with other public sector bodies.
He carries out technical research work for CIPFA including developing guidance on governance for public sector partnerships and speaks regularly on partnership related subjects.
Theresa Kimble
Theresa is an experienced complaints investigator for the Local Government Ombudsman. She was, until July 2008, responsible for coordinating the provision of training and advice for local authority staff in complaints management and investigation. Theresa now specialises in corporate and external communications for the LGO. She provides information, advice and guidance for local authorities and the advisory sector.
With an interest in French language and culture, Theresa has written a paper for the Ombudsman comparing the English system with that of the French Médiateur. She also translates and proofreads academic papers.
Theresa’s previous experience includes working in probation, in social care and in the management of women’s housing projects. She has an MA by research in European Gender Equality Law and is qualified to teach English as a foreign language.
She has contributed to the practice notes on:
- The Local Government Ombudsman
- Maladministration and service failure – complaints
- Maladministration and service failure – investigation and reports.
Paralegals
Nachum Sokolic
Paralegal
Nachum spent three years training as a legal conveyancing executive. He has experience of both residential and commercial property transactions, specialising, in particular, in commercial property. In addition, he has experience in dealing with probates.
Nachum began working in IT, before pursuing a legal career. He worked at Stock Fraser Cukier solicitors and was involved in upgrading their telephony and software systems.
Dolly Lundin
Paralegal
Dolly started at LexisNexis in July 2008 but has been a Student Associate of LexisNexis since September 2006.
Dolly graduated from Law at the University of Buckingham. Currently she is working on her LLM in International Professional Practice and the Corporate LPC at College of Law, Moorgate. She has worked as a paralegal in the States and studied philosophy at the University of California Berkeley.
All England Reporters and Editors
Gareth Williams
Technical Editor, All England Reporter
Gareth writes and edits case digests for the All England Reporter Service. He has wide experience of reporting in the High Court and Court of Appeal and specialises in cases in the Chancery Division, the Family Division and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Gareth was called to the Bar in October 2001, after completing the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law and a Law Degree at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.
Robert Chan
Technical Editor, All England Reporter
Robert writes digests for the All England Reporter. His work feeds into many areas across LexisNexis, including the All England Law Reports, the Specialist Reports, and Current Awareness. He is responsible for covering the Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative and Divisional Courts) on a day-to-day basis. He also has experience of working on cases handed-down or given extempore in the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Appeal (Criminal and Civil Division), and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Robert read law at King’s College London between 2002 and 2005. Thereafter, he took the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law in London. In 2006, he was called to the Bar of England and Wales.
Jade Campbell
Law Reporter, All England Reporter
Jade writes and edits cases for the All England Reporter Service. She has a broad experience of reporting Court of Appeal cases, and is jointly responsible day to day for the Court of Appeal, Civil Division. She also reports cases from the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
Jade was called to the Bar in 2006, following her completion of the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law, and completion of an LLB (Hons) law degree at Kingston University in 2005. She is a member of the Inner Temple
Chrissi Jackson
Technical Editor, All England Law Reports
Chrissi Jackson edits cases for the All England Law Reports and manages the publication of the All England Law Reports Annual Review
Chrissi read Jurisprudence at St John’s College, University of Oxford, graduating in 2004. She joined the All England Law Reports in 2005 and has worked with editorial teams across LexisNexis, including Simon’s Tax Cases and Bingham and Berrymans’ Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases.
Karen Widdicombe
Editor, All England Law Reports
Karen selects cases for publication, writes over 80% of the headnotes and, together with the managing editor, proofreads all the reports for legal and editorial accuracy.
Karen was admitted as a solicitor in 1991 and specialised in private client work, in particular equity and trusts, real and personal property law, estate planning and taxation. She joined Lexis Nexis in 2000 and until 2003 was the Assistant Editor of Simon’s Tax Cases.
Alex Palmer
Managing Editor, Current Awareness and News
Alex has been involved in the development of online current awareness services for the past 6 years. He is experienced in sourcing, editing and delivering a wide range of content, including statutory and case material, legal news and specialist articles and news.
Alex has worked for Lexis Nexis since 1998, and has a Law Degree from City University, London.
Ian Law
Managing Editor, All England Law Reports
Ian leads the All England Law Reports team. He has worked on a number of law reports series, including Law Reports of the Commonwealth, Scottish Case Digests and Butterworths Intellectual Property and Technology Cases.
Ian read Scots Law at the University of Glasgow and has Masters' degrees in Law and Economics from the Universities of Stockholm and Glasgow. He subsequently completed the English Common Professional Examination and Diploma in Legal Practice in London. Ian joined LexisNexis in 2002.
Amanda Wright
Senior Editor, All England Law Reports
Amanda edits cases for the All England Law Reports and is responsible for compilation of the bound volume service.
Amanda graduated in 2003 with a law degree from the University of Cardiff and completed the Diploma in Legal Practice in 2004. Amanda joined LexisNexis in 2004.
Ben Brocherie
Senior Editor, Current Awareness and News
Ben works as a senior editor in current awareness and news. He is a specialist in legal journals and magazines, and also in issues involving local government.
Ben has a Bachelor of the Arts from Canterbury University, New Zealand.
Catherine Bayliss
Series Editor, All England Law Reports European Cases and Butterworths Local Government Reports
Catherine is responsible for the management of the All England Law Reports (European Cases) and Butterworths Local Government Reports.
Catherine has a degree in Law and French and a Diploma in Legal Practice from Cardiff University. She joined LexisNexis in 2002.
Rukhsana Hasnain
Technical Editor, All England Law Reports
Rukhsana edits cases for the All England Law Reports and also manages the All England Law Reports Consolidated Tables and Index.
She joined LexisNexis in 1999 as a sub-editor on the specialised legal series of Simon’s Tax Cases and joined The All England Law Reports in 2001.
Vanessa Higgins
Technical Editor, All England Reporter
Vanessa prepares digests of judgments from the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal and has experience of reporting judgments from all other courts of record, as well as the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
Vanessa was called to the Bar in 2001. She practised predominantly in the field of criminal defence until joining the All England Reporter in 2004. She graduated with a 2.1(Hons) in Law from the University of Southampton in 2000.
Nenen Munu
Technical Editor, All England Reporter
Neneh specialises in Corporate Law, Commercial Law, and Corporate Insolvency, writing daily digests of cases decided in the Chancery Division of the High Court and the Admiralty and Commercial courts. She is also responsible for writing digests of cases decided in the United Kingdom Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, the Privy Council and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Neneh has a law degree from the University of Leeds and an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from London School of Economics in 1990. She was called to the Bar in 1997 and joined LexisNexis UK in 2000 having worked as a legal advisor for the African Development Agency.
James Wilson
Mananagng Editor, All England Reporter
James is in charge of the All England Reporter service. He has experience in reporting cases from all of the Courts of Record in England and Wales, as well as the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
Previously he worked for Nicholson Graham and Jones and for a New Zealand firm, Anthony Harper, in both cases primarily in civil litigation. He also worked as the judge's clerk to the Chief Justice of New Zealand. He has a BA/LLB (Hons).
Marie-Therese Groake
Senior Editor, All England Reporter
Marie-Therese is jointly responsible for the Court of Appeal, Civil Division. She previously spent a year specialising in the Chancery Division.
Marie-Therese was called to the Bar in 2006. She worked as a paralegal for two commercial law firms before joining the All England Reporter. She graduated with a 2.1(LLB) in Law from the University of Reading in 2003.
Carla Dougan
Senior Editor, All England Reporter
Carla specialises in Criminal Law. She writes daily digests of cases decided in the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division. She also writes digests of cases decided in the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, the Privy Council, Company Court and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Carla obtained her LLB (Hons) law degree from the University of Kent, Canterbury in 1997. She was called to the Bar in 1998. Carla holds a Masters (LLM) degree in Commercial and Corporate Law from Kings College London (1998-1999). Prior to commencing employment with Lexis Nexis UK in 2006, Carla worked at P.C.D.York and Co, Hammersmith London. She is also a member of the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean and practiced Criminal Law as a member of the Firm Dougan, York, & Co. in St.Vincent and the Grenadines, where she also served as a Senator and Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly in 2000.
Alison Pryer
Senior Editor, All England Rporter
Alison reports cases from the Divisional Court and the Administrative Court. She has particular expertise in criminal law.
She was called to the Bar in July 2008 and, prior to joining LexisNexis worked as an outdoor clerk in Crown Courts. She was previously an English teacher working for multinational firms including investment banks, before deciding to embark on a career in law.
Ranald Watson
Atkin's Court Forms
Ranald Watson is a technical editor working on Atkin's Court Forms.
He is a member of Lincoln's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1979. After a Chancery pupillage he joined Butterworths (now LexisNexis) in 1981 editing law books. He has worked on Atkin's Court Forms since 1984. Ranald has an MA in Business Law.
Harpreet Sandhu
Senior Editor, Atkin's Court Forms
Harpreet works as a Senior Editor for Atkin's Court Forms, which aims to provide a comprehensive collection of the forms and precedents required by solicitors and barristers in civil proceedings before the courts and judicial tribunals in England and Wales.
Harpreet read Law and qualified as a solicitor in 2005 before moving into Legal Publishing in 2006.
MiMi Aye
Senior Editor, Atkin’s Court Forms
MiMi edits and manages the CD and online updates for Atkin's Encyclopædia of Court Forms in Civil Proceedings (aka Atkin’s Court Forms), which provides legal practitioners with practice, procedure and precedents for use before the civil courts.
Having obtained an MA (Cantab) in Law at the University of Cambridge, MiMi qualified as a solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard, before joining LexisNexis in 2005.
Paula Greaves
Technical writer/editor, Atkin’s Court Forms
Paula edits Atkin’s Encyclopædia of Court Forms in Civil Proceedings, which provides practice, procedure and precedents for the civil courts.
Paula studied Law and History at the University of Keele. After admission as a solicitor, Paula worked in civil litigation specialising in personal injury claims before joining LexisNexis as an editor. Paula is currently studying for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology at King’s College, London.
Katy Sadat
Managing Editor, Atkin’s Court Forms
Katy manages Atkin’s Court Forms, the UK’s only encyclopaedia of civil litigation forms and precedents.
Prior to working in publishing, Katy studied law at the University of Kent in Canterbury and in France, at the Université de Grenoble. She was called to the Bar in 1991 and worked for a while in France and the UK, gaining experience of commercial law and litigation work.
Some of the LexisPSL team are "non-practising" solicitors, pending renewal of practising certificates.
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