Lewis Silkin

Dispute Resolution

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.

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

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

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