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Counsel - Employment
Content Team


Sam Allibone
Legal Editor


Eleanor Ayres
Knowledge Lawyer


Allie Bernier
Editorial Assistant
Allie studied Law (LLB) at the University of Warwick, graduating with a First Class Honours. She also completed the LPC at the University of Law, achieving a distinction.


Anne Marie Clayton
Knowledge Lawyer
Before joining FromCounsel, Anne-Marie was a corporate PSL for a number of years, and before that at Charles Russell and Norton Rose. Anne-Marie trained and qualified into the corporate department at Norton Rose where she advised on share and business acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, corporate re-organisations and provided corporate governance and other advice to listed companies.


Finn Conway
Legal Editor


Sara Hamid
Knowledge Lawyer


Sharon Davidson
Knowledge Lawyer


Tim Deamer
Senior Legal Editor


Nicola Green
Chief Content Officer


Valerie Griffith
Knowledge Lawyer
Valerie trained at Nabarro Nathanson, where she was also a corporate associate focusing on private equity and public company M&A transactions. She spent several years as a PSL at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Macfarlanes. Valerie has also worked as an in-house lawyer, most recently for a digital venture builder.


Huw Griffiths
Legal Editor


Nicola Hancock
Knowledge Lawyer


Claire Hammond
Knowledge Lawyer
Before joining FromCounsel, Claire performed PSL roles at, among others, Latham & Watkins and DLA Piper. She developed the core R&I precedents at Osborne Clarke and worked at Lexis PSL when the new Insolvency rules came into force. She trained and qualified at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.


Plum Hewitt
Legal Editor


Zheng Hong See
Legal Editor


Dan Hooke
Knowledge Lawyer
Before joining FromCounsel, Dan spent 7 years as the PSL for Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP's corporate department in London. Prior to becoming a PSL, Dan was trained at Trowers&Hamlins and qualified into the corporate team, where he was an associate in the London office for 8 years. He advised principally on private company M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and commercial agreements.


Paul Hughes-image
Senior Knowledge Lawyer


Taryna Mason
Head of Training and Real Estate Content


Dylan Matthews
Knowledge Lawyer
Before joining FromCounsel, Dylan worked in the Global Restructuring Group at Allen & Overy. He advised on a variety of restructurings, including through schemes of arrangement, administrations and liquidations. He also advised on the restructuring of a number of foreign companies in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Dylan has also worked for Allens, and King & Wood Mallesons, in Australia.
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Naveed Memon
Legal Editor


Claire Miller
Head of Document Automation


Lorraine Morris
Knowledge Lawyer


Mark O'Donnel
Knowledge Lawyer


Sian Robertson
Head of News | Head of R&I


Miranda Sadler
Legal Editor - News
Miranda is responsible for providing editorial assistance to the FromCounsel PSL Team. Miranda graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English before completing the Graduate Diploma in Law at BPP University and the Bar Vocational Studies at City, University of London as a Gray’s Inn Scholar. More recently, she completed a Masters of Laws in International Commercial Law at UCL.


Phil Smith
Knowledge Lawyer
Before joining FromCounsel, Phil had been a partner at Boyes Turner LLP in Reading since 2000, and was head of their insolvency team from 2007. He advised primarily on administrations, fixed charge receiverships, liquidations, and the sale & purchase of distressed businesses, as well as handling a wide range of insolvency-based litigation.
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Laura Stigaite
Editorial Assistant
Laura is responsible for providing editorial assistance to the FromCounsel PSL Team. Laura graduated from her LLB at Brunel University with an Upper Second Class Honours before being awarded a distinction in the LPC LLM at BPP University. Before joining FromCounsel, Laura worked as a knowledge paralegal at Penningtons Manches Cooper.


Philip Thornton
Head of Employment
"Philip practised as an employment barrister at Devereux Chambers. His practice comprised advisory and drafting work plus extensive advocacy in employment tribunals, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the High Court and Court of Appeal, concentrating latterly on complex discrimination matters for large employers. After 17 years there, he was recruited by LexisNexis to devise and develop what became the LexisPSL service from scratch. He and one other lawyer co-created the employment module, and he became head of the employment team. By the time he left to join FromCounsel, the LexisPSL service had grown from two to thirty-seven practice areas, four of which he was managing.


Helen Turnbull
Knowledge Lawyer
Helen was called to the bar in 2004. Prior to joining FromCounsel, she spent 12 years practising mainly in commercial and property law, developing practical litigation expertise in a wide range of courts and across various legal areas, including commercial landlord and tenant, contract, real estate, debt recovery and insolvency. Helen left practice to work at FromCounsel’s sister company, Sparqa Legal in 2016, first as a Managing Editor and latterly Head of Content before moving to FromCounsel.


Chris Warwick-Evans
Knowledge Lawyer
Chris trained at DLA Piper and spent his first two years as a commercial litigator, specialising in complex high-value litigation and regulatory matters. He requalified as an employment solicitor and over the last 8 years he has enjoyed acquiring extensive employment law experience advising businesses ranging from global multinationals and household names to start-ups on a wide range of employment law matters. Chris also has extensive experience advising senior executives on their personal employment law matters.


Claire Woolf
Knowledge Lawyer
Engineering


Michael Fernandez
UI Engineer


Tom Gould
Server-Side Engineer


Anuradha Gunasekara
UI Engineer


Rob Hinds
Chief Technology Officer


Jordan Milton
UI Engineer
Operations


Harry Birmingham
General Counsel & Company Secretary


Carol Furber
Finance Support


George Roberts
Chief Operating Officer


Catherine Thornton
HR Manager


Alison Walters
Financial Controller
Alison's professional journey began in London in accountancy and audit, specialising in working with SMEs across sectors at Deloitte’s, and from there, heading up finance in successful organisations like Econsultancy Ltd, Teddington Studios and The Future Cities Catapult. She has been fortunate to work as a consultant with startups focused on positive environmental and social impact, most recently supporting The Open Data Institute and The Provenance Project with strategic planning, financial modelling, fundraising and mentoring.
Commercial


Victoria Abberton
Chief Sales Officer


Amy-Clare Dick
Head of Marketing


Stephen Hughes
Investment Lead


Holly Martyn-Smith
Client Relationship Manager
Holly works closely with our clients to understand their knowledge, technology, and development strategy, and how we can best support firms with our growing portfolio of services. She works collaboratively with the marketing and content team to ensure that we continuously evolve our services in line with our clients' voice. Prior to joining FromCounsel, Holly was part of a unique journey at Blink, an employee communications app, from start-up to scale-up. She was involved in developing the go-to-market strategy and new business generation across a range of frontline industries.


Dan Mitchell
Senior Client Relationship Manager


Anna Simmonds
Head of Customer Success
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George Roberts
COO


Andrew Thornton KC
Chief Executive Officer


Mark Paterson
Chair