Jemima Salmon
Panellist, trainee, Jones Day
Jemima is a current second-year trainee at Jones Day. Jemima completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature at The University of Edinburgh, which included an exchange year in the US before completing her GDL and LPC. Following a winter vacation scheme at Jones Day, Jemima completed her law school studies before commencing her training contract in 2023.
Having spent over a year training through Jones Day’s distinctive non-rotational training system, Jemima has gained experience in a wide range of practice areas within the London office.
Jack Gray
Panellist, corporate counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP
Jack Gray is Corporate counsel in London. He advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions, including domestic and international private mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, joint ventures and equity capital markets transactions, as well as general corporate governance and advisory work.
Alexandra Gower
Panellist, partner, Osborne Clarke LLP
Alex specialises in non-contentious construction and engineering contract advice, working predominantly for developers, employers, funders and contractors across a range of development projects. Alex specialises in projects in the built environment sector with particular experience of residential and large mixed use regeneration schemes. Alex advises clients across the full range of residential development sub-sectors including build to sell, build to rent, later living developments and affordable housing. Recent experience also includes commercial development projects, projects in the life sciences and telecoms sectors and energy projects.
Claire Temple
Workshop leader, partner, Cooley (UK) LLP
Claire Temple is a partner in Cooley’s product compliance and liability team. Claire advises clients on complex regulatory risk, compliance and litigation issues. She helps clients who deal with products and consumers, helping bring both digital and physical products to market, advising on labelling, packaging and regulatory approvals, engaging with regulators and consumers and mitigating risk and liability.
Claire is also the partner who oversees the trainee cohorts at Cooley’s London office.
Charlotte Nolan
Panellist, partner, Baker McKenzie
Charlotte is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s corporate group based in London. Charlotte advises clients in relation to Corporate Reorganisations and general English company law matters.
Having completed her training contract at Baker McKenzie, Charlotte qualified into the corporate group in 2013.
Charlotte has completed two client secondments during her time at Baker McKenzie, spending six months at a multinational pharmaceuticals company in 2014 and ten months at a global financial institution overseeing corporate law matters across EMEA and APAC in 2018 and 2019.
John Balcon Perez
Workshop leader, trainee, Jones Day
John is a current second-year trainee at Jones Day. John completed a summer vacation scheme at Jones Day during the final year of his Politics, Philosophy and Ethics undergraduate degree at Royal Holloway University before completing his law school studies and commencing his training contract in 2023.
Tina Lepomme
Workshop leader, senior legal technologist, Addleshaw Goddard
Tina is a senior legal technologist part of the legal tech consulting team at Addleshaw Goddard. She has 10+ years of experience guiding and supporting clients with the implementation of global tech solutions to meet their needs. She specialises in accompanying clients on their legal tech journey from the identification of the right tools through to their implementation and return on investment. She ensures that every step is met with success and that clients end up with a solution which is fit for purpose.
Nikita Lysyuk
Workshop leader, associate, Jones Day
Nikita is a newly qualified associate in the global disputes practice at Jones Day. Before commencing his training contract at the firm, Nikita completed his undergraduate degree in History with proficiency in Mandarin at The University of Exeter and took part in a winter vacation scheme at Jones Day during his final year. Nikita then went on to complete his law school studies before joining the firm as a trainee in 2022.
Matt Morrow
Workshop leader, senior associate, Jones Day
Matt Morrow practices commercial litigation with a focus on complex disputes. He has acted for large corporations in a wide range of matters, including fraud, asset tracing, and construction disputes. Matt’s recent experience includes: successfully acting for a real estate developer in adjudication proceedings arising from defects in the design and construction of the cladding system of one of its London properties; advising a Kazakh bank in tracing assets and pursuing claims against a number of fraudsters across multiple jurisdictions while successfully seeking interim relief in the courts of England and Wales; working for an Emirati bank in an action brought in aid of foreign proceedings in which worldwide freezing orders were obtained in the United Kingdom and against Chabra defendants in the British Virgin Islands (BVI); and acting for Project Today in its defense of the high-profile proceedings and search orders brought by Ocado.
Elle Cheung
Panellist, trainee, Trowers & Hamlins LLP
Elle is a third seat trainee in the projects & construction department at Trowers & Hamlins, having previously done seats in public procurement and real estate.
Elle completed the LLB at UCL and participated in Trowers’ summer vacation scheme in 2021 before completing the LPC at the University of Law and commencing her training contract in 2023.
Simeon Laird
Panellist, trainee, Addleshaw Goddard
Simeon is currently a first seat trainee based in the real estate finance team at Addleshaw Goddard. He previously worked as a paralegal at Addleshaw in both the Manchester and London offices prior to his training contract. Born and raised in London, Simeon has Jamaican heritage, with both grandparents being part of the Windrush generation.
Niamh Greene
Workshop leader, associate, RPC
Jack Eastwood
Workshop leader, associate, Cooley (UK) LLP
Jack Eastwood is an associate in Cooley’s product compliance and liability team. Jack covers the nexus of UK and European Union sustainability and product law matters. Jack has extensive experience advising clients on their UK and international sustainability reporting obligations, climate-related targets and disclosures, due diligence and supply chain transparency requirements.
Jack qualified at Cooley in 2023 following the completion of his training at the firm.
Filippo Marchiori
Panellist, trainee, RPC
Hadya Shawki
Workshop leader, legal technologist, Addleshaw Goddard
Hadya is a legal technologist in the document lifecycle team. She is an expert in developing document automation solutions and her day to day involves strategising new ways of utilising document data and improving team processes. She studied Law at the University of Bristol followed by an MSc International Management where she focused her dissertation on exploring the factors influencing legal tech adoption in UK law firms.
Robert Gray
Workshop leader, partner, Baker McKenzie
Robert is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s London corporate Group. He advises regularly on the structuring and negotiating of cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and complex carve-outs, with a particular focus on the Industrials sector. In addition, Robert has a particular focus on Russia and the CIS, having previously been based in the region.
Alysia Hoe
Panellist, SQE student and future trainee, The University of Law
Alysia is an SQE student at The University of Law and a future trainee solicitor at Stevens & Bolton LLP.
Ben Bruton
Panellist, workshop leader, partner, Winston & Strawn London LLP
Ben is head of London’s litigation practice. He has 25 years of international dispute resolution, investigations and financial crime experience, having handled high-stakes disputes for several FTSE 100 and S&P 500 companies across many jurisdictions including in the London courts, the UAE courts, and a range of arbitral seats.
Humera Khan
Workshop leader, trainee, Cooley (UK) LLP
Humera Khan is a second-year trainee, currently completing a seat in Cooley’s product compliance and liability team (having completed seats in Capital Markets and Business Litigation previously).
Humera completed her English degree at the University of Birmingham before completing GDL and LPC at BPP and ULaw respectively. She completed her summer programme at Cooley in 2021 and started her training at Cooley in 2023.
Megan Grew
Workshop leader, associate, RPC
Bijal Limbachia
Panellist, trainee, Cooley (UK) LLP
Bijal Limbachia is a first-year trainee at Cooley’s London office, currently completing a general corporate (M&A, PE, VC, capital markets) seat.
Bijal completed her law degree at the University of Warwick before completing her LLM in Legal Practice (SQE 1 & 2) at the University of Law in London. She completed her summer programme at Cooley in 2023 and also spent some time working at Legal Cheek before commencing her training.
Bijal enjoys spending time with family, playing badminton and being involved in charitable work in her spare time.
Rob Mallett
Workshop leader, operations manager, Trowers & Hamlins LLP
Rob Mallett is an operations manager in the Innovation and Legal Technology team based in London.
Rob brings extensive legal sector expertise. With a background as a litigator, he transitioned into operational leadership, spearheading transformative change projects that leverage legal technology to enhance client and lawyers outcomes.
Ellen Lambrix
Keynote speaker, panellist, partner, Bristows LLP
Ellen has broad IP experience and specialises in advising clients on non-contentious IP matters with a focus on transactions that involve the development, exploitation, and transfer of IP rights. She advises clients across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on the life sciences sector. Her clients range from large multinational companies, investors, start-ups and growing companies, to spin-outs and academic and non-profit research organisations.
Gagandeep Dadial
Workshop leader, senior product manager, Trowers & Hamlins LLP
Gagandeep is a senior product manager in Trowers & Hamlins’ Innovation & Legal Technology team.
Gagandeep supports the development and adoption of our legal technology products. He works closely with our legal technologists to deliver innovative client solutions and internal efficiencies. Gagandeep leads on application development within the Innovation team and hosts our annual hackathons.
Mike Ahyow
Workshop leader, senior associate, Osborne Clarke LLP
Mike is a senior associate in the commercial team at Osborne Clarke. He acts for clients in technology-driven and digital media industries on a wide variety of matters. Mike has extensive data privacy experience, including leading compliance projects, carrying out data privacy audits, and advising on data privacy risk management.
Mike trained at a law firm in London, qualifying as a lawyer in 2013, before joining Osborne Clarke in 2015.