The Legal 500

Work Department

IT/C.

Position

Of counsel to Baker & McKenzie. Advises on a range of matters, including data protection compliance and litigation, software and database licensing, electronic commerce, telecommunications and broadcast media regulatory issues, computer crime and IT systems and services contracts.

Career

Involved in law reform projects for the World Bank, the European Commission, UNCTAD, UNECE and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, as well as for a number of individual states; consultant Tarlo Lyons 1990-97; Bird & Bird 1997-2001; admitted as a solicitor to Supreme Court of England and Wales 2005; seconded to the European Commission as a national expert in electronic commerce law 1995-96; member, legal advisory board to the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission; professor of information and communications law and head of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London; has held visiting positions at the Universities of Texas and Melbourne. Publications include: ‘EDI and the Law’ (1989); ‘Information Technology and the Law’ (1990); ‘EDI Audit and Control’ (1993); ‘Cross-border Electronic Banking’ (1995, 2000); ‘Telecommunications Law Handbook’ (1997); ‘E-Commerce Law and Practice in Europe’ (2001); ‘Telecommunications Law and Regulation’ (2001, 2005, 2009); ‘Computer Crimes and Digital Investigations’ (2007); and ‘Media Law & Practice’ (2009).

Member

Trustee and vice-chair Internet Watch Foundation.

Education

University of Nottingham (1985 BA Hons 2(1) Politics (Law subsidiary)); Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, US (1986 MA Political Science); Nottingham Trent University (1992 PhD Law).

Leisure

Running, reading.

Practice Areas

Electronic commerce; Information technology; Telecommunications