For the past 15 years Sarah has focussed on knowledge management with an employment focus, and is responsible for the implementation, management and monitoring of strategic knowledge services with the employment team. Sarah supports and promotes the work of the employment team through drafting precedents, keeping the team and its clients up to date on developing areas of the law, and harnessing new technology and ways of working to deliver an efficient and effective service. In addition, Sarah manages the team’s content strategy and regularly writes articles for client publications. She also writes and delivers content for internal and external training programmes.

Sarah is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and the PSL Employment Network. She is also certified as a legal project practitioner with the Institute of Legal Management.

She assists the team on complex transactional points and provides technical training on the latest legal developments. Sarah is also responsible for reviewing the latest legal tech tools, to increase efficiency within the team, and help deliver excellent client service. As part of the wider best practice group, she champions knowledge initiatives across the firm.

As well as having more than 15 years’ experience in real estate knowledge management, Sarah has experience of developing e-learning resources for real estate lawyers with a leading online legal knowledge provider. Before becoming a knowledge lawyer, she spent several years as a transactional real estate lawyer at a City law firm, where her clients included investors, developers, lenders, asset managers, and retail tenants. Sarah is a member of the Property Support Lawyers Group.

He specialises in the shipping and insurance sectors and has experience across a broad range of charter party and bill of lading disputes and maritime incidents. Chris frequently advises on matters of disputed hire and demurrage, stevedore damage, force majeure, cargo damage and shortage, speed and performance, collisions and groundings. His instructions include a piratical cargo theft, a bill of lading fraud, the termination of a pool agreement involving an extensive bunker consumption reporting fraud, a series of container floods and fires, and toppled container stacks. Chris has seen cases through arbitration and English and foreign proceedings. His areas of particular expertise include liquid cargo claims, unsafe ports, and the developing field of electronic bills of lading.

Chris joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2022 having spent 12 years in other maritime litigation roles. He has worked with another leading UK shipping law firm, and in-house at both an International Group P&I club and a commercial marine insurer. Chris regularly lectures and writes for the legal press.

She is responsible for the implementation, management and monitoring of strategic knowledge services within the private client department. Sarah facilitates knowledge sharing through drafting precedents, providing advice and research on complex, technical legal issues, and identifying important legal developments for dissemination and discussion. She regularly chairs, writes content for, and speaks at internal training events, both for her department and across the firm.

A member and vice-chair of the Law Society’s private client section, Sarah has helped to chair, speak at and attend several of the excellent events provided by the section. She is also certified as a legal project practitioner with the Institute of Legal Management. She uses her LPM skills to initiate and manage efficiency projects and tech tool developments within the department. Sarah joined the firm in 2015 and has over 20 years of experience in delivering private client knowledge services and solutions to firms in London and the South East.

The focus of Georgina’s role is on supporting the IP, IT and commercial team, and both the life sciences and digital business sector teams, by ensuring that they are on top of the latest legal developments and changes in legal practice. She develops and delivers knowhow and training for clients and her team, as well as cross-collaborating with other teams across the firm. She also works with the best practice team to share best practice and knowledge and improve firm processes and technology solutions, to enable teams to work more efficiently and to deliver a best-in-class service for clients.

Georgina’s particular interest in life sciences and innovation stems from her experience working in-house in these sectors and coming from a biomedical science background. As well as editing legal resources, she is involved in developing insights and horizon scanning for the latest trends and analysis, as well as in coaching and mentoring junior lawyers.

Since joining the firm in 2022, Beth has supported the family team by ensuring they are kept up to date with legal current awareness and latest developments, drafting precedents and client guides, and providing technical assistance and legal research on complex issues. She is a member of the Family Knowledge Lawyer Network, as well as Resolution, an organisation which promotes a constructive approach to resolving family law matters, where she sits on its practice standards panel.

Beth also works closely with other teams within the firm’s private wealth sector group to ensure a collaborative working environment for colleagues and a full service offering for the firm’s clients. As a knowledge lawyer, Beth is part of the firm’s best practice group where she works to improve firmwide processes and systems to allow the family team, and the wider firm, to work efficiently and provide the best possible client service.

As a litigator in the team, Jenna specialises in group actions and professional negligence. As a knowledge lawyer, she practises general commercial litigation, with particular expertise in civil procedure, legal technology, and innovation. Jenna also works with the firm’s best practice and central teams to improve firmwide processes and systems. She qualified into the commercial disputes team in 2018 after joining the firm as a trainee solicitor in 2016. Prior to this, she worked as a knowledge management paralegal in professional and financial disputes at an international law firm.

The Legal 500 has described her as ‘efficient, easy to deal with and never miss[ing] a beat.’ She is a member of the Association of Litigation Professional Support Lawyers.

She ensures that the team stays ahead of legal developments, particularly in areas of fast-paced change, such as group litigation and multi-jurisdictional disputes. Her work includes organising training sessions, maintaining key precedents, and producing insightful practice notes.

Harriet is recognised as a Lexology ‘legal influencer’ and is a member of the Lexis Case Analysis Expert Panel for Dispute Resolution. She regularly writes for a range of publications, including Law360 and New Law Journal, offering expert analysis on a range of legal developments. Harriet has also contributed to guides on fraud and asset recovery, the enforcement of foreign judgments and most recently on group litigation.

In addition to her writing, Harriet is an experienced speaker and has presented for MBL Seminars and Lexis Webinars, delivering training on dispute resolution and commercial litigation topics. She is also an active member of LegalUK, contributing to initiatives that promote the UK as a global hub for legal services. Her expertise and commitment to knowledge-sharing make her an invaluable resource for both colleagues and clients, reinforcing the teams’ reputation for excellence in commercial dispute resolution.