The committee supports the development of the future strategy of the Section and enhancement of the services already offered to members
Katherine Harper - Chair
Katherine is a Knowledge & Innovation Lawyer supporting the Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution team at Goodwin Procter. Katherine is also an experienced commercial litigator and a CEDR accredited mediator…
Louise Nicholson - Vice Chair
Louise Nicholson, is a Senior Knowledge Lawyer for Baker & McKenzie’s Dispute Resolution team in London. She was previously a Senior Associate in the team and then a Knowledge Lawyer in the firm’s International Arbitration Group. As a fee-earner, Louise worked on a range of commercial litigation matters, including a specialism in product liability disputes, and international arbitration proceedings…
Julian Caddick
Julian Caddick is the Head of Cost and experienced costs lawyer at Thompsons. Having specialised in legal costs since 1999 he joined Thompsons as head of costs in 2005.
He regularly advises on costs issues in high-value and complex cases. He oversees the management of Thompsons’ internal costs teams, which deal with claimant costs recovery and costs management in high-value personal injury and clinical negligence cases, but also in trade union law, group litigation and employment matters, including costs arising in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. The teams also specialise in Court of Protection costs work…
Jennifer Morrissey
Jennifer Morrissey is one of the founding partners of Harcus Parker.
She is a commercial litigator with a particular focus on financial services litigation, insolvency disputes, and securities actions. She represents private and corporate clients, including a number of international and domestic investment managers and advisers. She has extensive experience working with clients to put in place litigation funding and ATE insurance to facilitate access to justice for her clients.
Her practice combines High Court litigation and….
Leah Alpren Waterman
Leah Alpren-Waterman is Of Counsel, Knowledge Lawyer for Mishcon De Reya in the Dispute Resolution department, focussing on Commercial Litigation, Insurance and International Arbitration.
She is a contributor to the first and second editions of “Commercial Litigation”, published by Sweet and Maxwell, as well as the second edition of “Advertising Law and Regulation”, published by Bloomsbury Professional. She has also written for a range….
Ahmed Abdel-Hakam
Ahmed Abdel-Hakam is a Solicitor-Advocate and a Partner at Volterra Fietta (Civil and Criminal Higher Rights of Audience) before the Higher Courts of England & Wales and a French Avocat (Avocat au Barreau de Paris). He currently sits on the Dispute Resolution Committee of the Law Society of England & Wales and is Co-Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the African Society of International Law. Since joining the firm, he has been advising and representing clients in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East…
Masood Ahmed
Masood Ahmed is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester. He read law at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College) and completed his postgraduate diploma in legal practice at Cardiff University. He qualified as a solicitor at a leading international commercial law firm and practised commercial dispute resolution (litigation, arbitration and mediation) as well as undertaking commercial transactional work.
He is the Alternative Dispute Resolution and Case Note Editor of the Civil Justice Quarterly, an editor of the Journal of Personal Injury Law and a commentator of the…
Alastair Shaw
Alastair Shaw is a dispute resolution partner at Level with considerable experience and expertise in commercial disputes and in particular in relation to complex civil fraud litigation including in relation to tech, media and IP. With over two decades of expertise in high-magnitude proceedings,
Alastair handles contractual work and disputes for hi-tech clients. He advises clients in relation to a broad range of commercial disputes and has considerable knowledge of substantial multi-jurisdictional claims….
Laura Feldman
Laura Felman is a Barrister at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She has experience acting for retail and investment banks in complex and high-value contentious matters, typically with an international dimension. She has represented clients in the context of arbitration and litigation, as well as internal and regulatory investigations and enforcement action. Her recent experience includes regulatory investigations and litigation in response to cyber-attacks and cyber-fraud and complex hi-value multi-jurisdictional insolvencies.
She assists the Knowledge team, focusing on financial services litigation and investigations….
