Brands & Intellectual Property

Partner: Jo jointly leads the firm's Commercial group and advises clients on their advertising and marketing campaigns and exploitation of intellectual property rights and content. Her clients include brand owners, content creators, communications agencies and media platforms. Jo is recognised as a leading lawyer in the field of advertising and brand reputation in legal directories.

Trained Edge Ellison (now Squire Patton Boggs) 1997-99; qualified 1999; assistant Hammonds (Squire Patton Boggs) 1999-2002; associate Baker & McKenzie, Sydney (practising Australian law) 2003; associate Lewis Silkin 2004-08; partner Lewis Silkin 2008 to present. Speaks regularly at conferences on advertising, commercial contracts and social media.

Longfield School, Darlington; Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington; Nottingham University (1996 LLB Hons 2:1); Nottingham Law School (1997 LPC – Distinction).

Outside of work, Jo lives in St Albans and spends most of her time being a chauffeur to her twin sons and generally running around after them.