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European chair of litigation.
Position
Lord Goldsmith joined Debevoise as European chair of litigation in September 2007. Lord Goldsmith served as the UK Attorney General from 2001-07, prior to which he was in private practice as one of the leading barristers in London. He has appeared in many cases in the House of Lords, the Privy Council and the Court of Appeal, as well as international and European courts and the courts of a number of other jurisdictions. Significant work includes: leading cases on auditors’ liability; insurance and takeover; banking and company law; insolvency litigation; revenue cases; public law and public international law; and arbitration.
Career
Lord Goldsmith practised from Fountain Court Chambers from 1972-2001, specialising principally in commercial, corporate and international litigation and appellate work. He became Queen’s Counsel in 1987 at the early age of 37 and has judicial experience as a Crown Court recorder and a deputy High Court judge. Lord Goldsmith was appointed Attorney General in 2001, acting as chief legal adviser to the government on matters of domestic, European and international law. He represented the government in numerous cases in UK and international courts. He joined Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in 2007. Appointments include council member of the international section of the American Bar Association; Board Member of the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative; co-chairman of the ICC Task Force on States and State Entities, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Access to justice Foundation; chairman of the Bar of England & Wales (1995); chairman of the Financial Reporting Review Panel (1997-2000); co-chairman of the IBA Human Rights Institute (1998-2001); elected to membership of the American Law Institute (1997); and made a member of the Paris Bar (1997). He was a council member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Union Intemationale des Avocats. Lord Goldsmith was made a Life Peer in 1999 and Privy Counsellor in 2001. In 1996 he founded the Bar of England and Wales’ pro bono unit, of which he is now president. He is a bencher of Gray’ Inn.
Member
President Bar of England and Wales pro bono unit.
Education
Cambridge University (double first class honours); University College London (masters).
