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EC1N 6RY
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Vanessa Reid
Position
Vanessa specialises in criminal defence and regulatory law. She has secured successful outcomes for clients in a wide range of criminal matters encompassing serious and violent offences, fraud and the proceeds of crime, and weapons and drug trafficking. She has a particular commitment to representing vulnerable defendants, including young persons and people with mental health difficulties.
Vanessa also has a robust regulatory practice. She frequently appears before medical and healthcare tribunals, and has been instructed to present a wide range of cases involving serious allegations relating to sexual misconduct, patient death, misappropriation of controlled drugs, and significant fraud. In addition, Vanessa has extensive experience advising and representing companies responding to regulatory scrutiny at the pre-action, investigation, and charging stages across multiple jurisdictions.
In addition to being a qualified barrister in England and Wales, Vanessa has been a member of the California State Bar since 2010. Prior to re-locating to the UK, Vanessa served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Dolly Gee of the Central District of California, where she worked on numerous high-profile civil and criminal cases. She previously worked at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, representing indigent criminal defendants in felony cases, and as an associate at Latham & Watkins in San Francisco, handling complex regulatory matters and commercial litigation.
Vanessa was a founding advisor to Essie Justice Group, a US-based non-profit dedicated to organising women with incarcerated family members to end mass incarceration. She has also served as a volunteer teacher for the San Quentin Prison University Project and a defence advocate at the Berkeley Death Penalty Clinic.
Vanessa is a member of Women in Criminal Law (WICL), the Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL), and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Career
Called: 2018
Memberships
- Women in Criminal Law (WICL)
- Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL)
- Howard League for Penal Reform
- Member of the State Bar of California since 2010