This article first appeared in Connect Jersey.
If arguments are an art, then disputes are a discipline; the
former something to avoid, the latter an interesting area to work
in.
For Nick Williams, the law was a career choice from an early
stage. His father was a lawyer at international firm Mayer Brown,
and growing up in Ealing, London, attending school at St
Paul's School in Barnes, law appeared to be the connector
between his academic interests and his desire to work in City
business.
After studying History at York, Nick did a law conversion, and
secured a training contract at Clifford Chance in London where he
qualified as an English solicitor in 2003. He gravitated towards
the Dispute Resolution team, where he found himself working on many
highly complex commercial cases including some that involved Jersey
trusts, and in 2007 he joined Ogier and moved to Jersey.
