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Lewis Silkin Offices

Lewis Silkin
Arbor
255 Blackfriars Rd
LONDON
SE1 9AX
England
Visit website 020 7074 8000 020 7864 1200

Adam Glass

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020 074 8447 adam.glass@lewissilkin.com View profile

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner: Part of the firm’s Disputes Resolution team and has previously been a barrister and in-house media lawyer. Adam advises clients across a broad spectrum of legal services, especially where civil and criminal law overlap. He has particular expertise in relation to intellectual property, media, crime, and health & safety issues.

Adam’s work may involve regulatory or quasi-regulatory bodies such as the Competition and Markets Authority, the Health and Safety Executive, the Advertising Standards Authority, National Trading Standards, and Collecting Societies.

His typical work ranges across copyright, design right, and trade mark; privacy, libel, harassment, data protection, and breach of confidence; consumer litigation; contract disputes; fraud; h & s prosecutions.

Career

Qualified as Barrister: 1994 Barrister at Mitre Court Chambers (now 5KBW): 1994-2000 Senior Lawyer at News International Newspapers (now News UK): 2000-2006 Re-qualified as solicitor: 2006 Glass Law: 2006-2008 Davenport Lyons: 2008-2013 Lewis Silkin: 2013 – present

Education

Hampton School; Liverpool John Moores University (BA (Hons) 2(1) Media and Communications Studies); Inns of Court School of Law (Diploma in Law).

Leisure

Hobbies include playing guitar & piano; skiing; self-defence.

Lawyer Rankings

London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management

The reputation management team at Lewis Silkin covers all aspects of media law, including defamation, privacy, malicious falsehood, data protection and harassment, on behalf of both claimants and defendants. Sensitive and high-profile employment investigations are another area of expertise. Adam Glass handles crisis management for prominent publishers, as well as advising on a range of complex pre-publication issues. Managing partner Giles Crown has previous experience as a media barrister and is well placed to act on defamation, privacy and data protection matters.

London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design

Praised as ‘super efficient’ and ‘proactive’, Lewis Silkin’s broad IP offering covers a wide array of matters, extending from various disputes and portfolio management to regulatory work. Thomas Gaunt leads the practice, which routinely handles matters in the retail, technology, media and entertainment, and manufacturing and engineering sectors. Adam Glass’s capabilities include music and literary copyright disputes for various advertising and media clients. Giles Crown strengthens the practice with his specialist expertise in brand protection and enforcement work, with Simon Chapman contributing his extensive litigation experience. Neil Parkes regularly instructs media rights owners, and Nick Bowie is at the forefront of the firm’s trade mark portfolio practice.

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