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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.

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 and 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.

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.

The Wadester was begat through an unholy alliance between one of those blank scrolls they make you hold when you have your photo taken on being admitted to the dark art of soliciting and a bottle of wine.
Having practised litigation back in the day when all law firms had bars downstairs and all cases were quirky and involved eccentric clients with buckets of money to spend, The Wadester retired to the elegant world of publishing. Here she now lives, occasionally crawling up out of her hay nest in the basement of Halsbury House to give a strange little whimpers of ‘insight’.

Jonathan is a solicitor with over 20 years experience in personal injury litigation, with a particular emphasis on public liability, employers liability and road traffic accident claims. Jonathan was a partner at Thompsons and Graysons and more recently a Senior Associate at Nabarro LLP and has considerable experience in acting for both individual Claimants and Defendant corporate and insurer clients.

Allison is a former partner of Shoosmiths, with extensive experience of legal management and practice compliance. She has recently completed an LLM in Corporate Governance, focussing on regulation of the legal sector and the challenges presented by the Legal Services Act. Allison joined Lexis®PSL in November 2010 as Head of Practice Compliance.

Will Long is Head of In-house Development at LexisNexis. Previously Will worked in a variety of editorial and marketing roles at Practical Law Company, focusing on understanding and writing for the in-house legal community. Will was called to the Bar in 2003, and received an LLM in Human Rights Law from UCL in 2002. He joined LexisPSL In-house in 2011.

Ruth specialises in general corporate and commercial dispute resolution with particular experience in shareholder disputes, fraud and warranty claims.  Ruth trained and qualified at Berwin Leighton Paisner where she remained in practice for ten years.  Her work has involved project managing large-scale cases to trial in the chancery and commercial courts.  Ruth was actively involved in in-house training with a particular focus on all aspects of evidence gathering and production, including authoring a user-manual on E-disclosure.  She is also a contributer to the New Law Journal.

Alex Smith is one of the Product Development Leads at LexisNexis in the UK developing LexisNexis’s existing Legal Intelligence offerings and looking at the needs of new markets. He has worked at LexisNexis for 12 years and worked on many new technological developments, the last few years focusing on search, relevancy and navigation through online legal services. Alex also works on the UK’s Customer Discovery & Innovation programme talking to lawyers to discover emerging needs and product innovation.

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.

Mark Dunn is the Market Planning Manager for Risk & Compliance at LexisNexis. He is responsible for helping to shape the LNI BIS risk market strategy and business development. He is also the spokesman on anti-money laundering, anti-bribery & corruption and sanctions compliance
Mark joined LexisNexis in 2000 following the acquisition of Financial Times Information. In 2003, he developed the Know Your Customer (KYC) application used by banks, law firms and accountants to conduct enhanced customer due diligence for anti-money laundering compliance and by global institutions for anti-bribery & corruption investigations. Mark is a regular speaker at industry events and has written extensively for industry journals.

James has a broad spectrum of corporate law experience across a variety of business sectors, having worked for a number of years as a general corporate practitioner at several major City firms.
Having trained at Eversheds, James joined the London office of Morgan Lewis, one of the top 20 law firms in the United States, gaining valuable experience in cross-border corporate acquisition and finance transactions for major US corporations and banks.  After four years, he moved to the corporate department at Denton Wilde Sapte (now SNR Denton).  Here, James’ work encompassed private company acquisitions and reorganisations, public company takeovers and joint venture transactions, as well as advising domestic and international AIM-listed and private companies, and high net worth individuals, on a variety of general corporate matters.

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.