Meet the experts
Counsel - Corporate
Michael Todd KC
Martin Moore KC
David Chivers KC
Peter Arden KC
Andrew Thompson KC
James Potts KC
Andrew Thornton KC
Edward Davies KC
Ben Shaw KC
Nigel Dougherty
Nigel Dougherty is a member of Erskine Chambers.
Ben Griffiths
Ben Griffiths is a member of Erskine Chambers.
Patrick Harty
Jack Rivett
Anna Scharnetzky
Chantelle Staynings
Andrew Blake
Philip Morrison
Seamus Woods
Tom Hall
Tom Hall is a member of Erskine Chambers.
Counsel - R&I (Launching Q1 2026)
Tom Smith KC
David Alexander KC
Mark Arnold KC
Adam Al-Attar KC
Marcus Haywood
Hannah Thornley
Clara Johnson
Georgina Peters
William Willson
Henry Phillips
Robert Amey
Andrew Shaw
Ryan Perkins
Edoardo Lupi
Stefanie Wilkins
Daniel Judd
Jamil Mustafa
Paul Fradley
Peter Burgess
Rabin Kok
Imogen Beltrami
Dhananjay Kumar
Charlotte Ward
Angus Groom
Counsel - Employment
Robin Allen KC
Paul Epstein KC
Daphne Romney KC
Jacques Algazy KC
Caspar Glyn KC
Rachel Crasnow KC
Schona Jolly KC
Tom Coughlin KC
Sarah Fraser Butlin KC
Paul Mitchell
Carolyn D'Souza
Claire McCann
Tom Brown
Adam Ohringer
Dee Masters
Chris Milsom
Olivia-Faith Dobbie
Caroline Musgrave-Cohen
Nathaniel Caiden
Chesca Lord
Rachel Barrett
Rachel Barrett is a member of Cloisters Chambers.
Tamar Burton
Jennifer Davies
Jonathan Cook
Charlotte Goodman
Laurene Veale
Helena Ifeka
Ameer Ismail
Executive Leadership
Andrew Thornton KC
Lucinda Case
George Roberts
Rob Hinds
Nicola Green
Vicki Abberton
Claire Bostock
FromCounsel - Knowledge Team
Jeremy Chiew
Anne Marie Claydon
Sharon Davidson
Valerie Griffith
Huw Griffiths
Sara Hamid
Helen Hampton
Helen is an Editorial Consultant. She works alongside the FromCounsel Knowledge Lawyers, providing editing services in relation to new and updated content.
Prior to joining FromCounsel, Helen was a solicitor at Clyde & Co before teaching on the LPC and GDL courses at Kaplan Law School in London.
Nicola Hancock
Daniel Hooke
Angela Johnston
Hannah Leonard
Helen Matson-Jones
Helen is an Editorial Consultant. She reviews and edits Q&A content.
Helen qualified in 2006 into the litigation team of a top London insurance firm, specialising in the defence of professional indemnity negligence claims against a broad range of professionals. She also advised insurer clients on policy coverage disputes and spent time seconded to a Lloyd’s insurer. Helen worked with FromCounsel for a period of time to assist with the preparation of the Corporate Q&A content pre-launch before joining the disputes and litigation department of a high street firm. In 2022 she returned to FromCounsel as an Editorial Consultant.
Helen is a member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading. She collaborates knowledge and skills acquired from both private practice and CIEP training to ensure that the Q&A content meets the high standards of the FromCounsel brand.
Naveed Memon
Lorraine Morris
Mark O’Donnell
Sian Robertson
Nicola Ruutel
Before joining FromCounsel, Nicky spent 16 years as a corporate PSL at Stevens & Bolton. Prior to becoming a PSL, Nicky worked as an associate in the Corporate departments of Stevens & Bolton and former City firm, Sinclair, Roche & Temperley, where she also trained. She advised on a range of transactions and matters including share and business acquisitions, shareholders’ and joint venture agreements, venture capital transactions, group reorganisations and corporate advice for public and private companies.
Liesel Bullas
Liesel is a Consultant Knowledge Lawyer within the Employment Team, having headed the Sheffield Employment team at Irwin Mitchell before becoming Director of Employment at a niche local firm.
Rebecca Catterson
Rebecca joined the R&I team at FromCounsel after 14 years at Practical Law/PLC (Thomson Reuters) where she was a senior editor and latterly director of the UK, US and Canadian R&I/ Bankruptcy teams.
Rebecca qualified as a solicitor in 2002 into the R&I team at Theodore Goddard before moving to A&O, where she spent five years working on a range of national and cross-border restructuring deals in A&O’s global restructuring team, before moving to the securitisation team to gain additional experience in international structured finance deals. In 2008 Rebecca took a short career break to qualify as an attorney in the US (Illinois), before moving back to the UK in 2010 to help develop the Practical Law R&I product.
Claire Hammond
Dylan Matthews
Phil Smith
Virginia Vandra
Ruth Christy
Will Clift
Will is a Knowledge Lawyer in the Employment Team. Will has many years' experience as an Employment Solicitor. Before joining FC, Will worked as a Senior Associate at a national law firm, advising a broad range of businesses and senior executives on the full range of employment law issues.
Hannah Couchlin
Sarah Rushton
Chris Warwick-Evans
Eleanor Ayres
Sam Brendish
Sam trained and qualified in the Disputes & Investigations team at Taylor Wessing where she advised on a wide range of disputes and investigations, including general commercial and technology disputes, civil fraud and regulatory investigations.
Sam has particular expertise in class actions and group litigation and is also experienced in project managing complex multi-party group litigation and claims relating to privacy and data protection disputes. Sam joined FromCounsel in October 2025.
Emma Dixon
Emma trained and qualified as a litigator at Macfarlanes and worked there for a number of years on commercial and IP disputes - primarily in the sport and aviation sectors. She then moved in-house to Rolls-Royce as a commercial litigator, providing disputes and training support across the business.
In 2020, Emma joined Stobbs, gaining further experience as an IP litigator (in both the High Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court), as well as providing the litigation team's knowledge and training support. Subsequently, Emma moved with her team to Addleshaw Goddard, acting on a high-profile IP dispute in the High Court. Emma joined FromCounsel in autumn 2025.
Helen Turnbull
Annelise O'Neill
Paul Hughes
Training Team
Estelle Allen
Sam Carless
Hannah Loten
Claire Woolf
Documents and Automation Team
Plum Hewitt
Claire Miller
Caroline Pearce
Editorial Team
Lawrence Alford
Ishaan Bhardwaj
Fadi Bou Hadir
Natasha Bowater
Tim Deamer
Louise Heath
Rhiannon Hopcroft
Ariana Jahromi
Dylan Karssens
Jan Mlynarczyk
Sienna Pearson
Eleanor Razavi
Boluwatife Soyebo
Lucy Squires
Ke Xuan Tee
Engineering Team
Rob Hinds
Tom Gould
Scott Meldrum
Before joining, Scott worked as a teacher of maths for 7 years before seeing the light and moving into software engineering.
After spending 5 years at Hermes as a backend engineer he then joined Basement crowd. Scott graduated from the University of York with a BSc in Mathematics.
Jordan Milton
Michael Salama-Fernandez
Dan Sutton
Operations and Accounts Team
George Roberts
Harry Birmingham
Carol Furber
Kimseima Lim
Jeremy Martin
Michelle Smith
Catherine Thornton
Alex Walker
Sales and Marketing Team
Vicki Abberton
Claire Bostock
Clare Bowen
Joe Ellcock
Brett Fields
Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Brett has lived in London since 2013 and has over 12 years of experience in various roles within the UK/EMEA legal services industry (9 years of this was at LexisNexis UK).
He enjoys being part of a highly intellectual team here at FromCounsel, and being able to help equip legal professionals with a range of FromCounsel services that really do add unique value not seen elsewhere.
Dan Mitchell
Jacqui Mowbrey
Jacqui is passionate about delivering exceptional customer experience, with a background in customer success, onboarding, operations, and publishing. Before joining FromCounsel she was most recently Head of Customer Success and Onboarding at LexisNexis and prior to that held commercial commissioning and content portfolio roles at both LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters.
Jacqui's principal focus is on delivery of strategic and operational initiatives to ensure our clients achieve maximum value and long-term success with our solutions, so that they feel supported, heard, and confident every step of the way.
Anna Simmonds
Matthew Todd
Matt joined FromCounsel from LexisNexis, where he held a series of senior account management roles spanning Large Law, the Public Sector, In-House teams, and most recently, The Bar.
His work regularly involved partnering with C-suite leaders and Heads of Chambers, delivering strategic solutions and building trusted relationships at the highest levels. Prior to that, he headed up The In-House Lawyer magazine at Legalease. Matt brings a wealth of expertise in account management and business development, underpinned by a nuanced understanding of the legal sector.
Board
Michael Todd KC
Nigel Dougherty
Nigel Dougherty is a member of Erskine Chambers.
Andrew Thornton KC
Lucinda Case
George Roberts

