Profile

Nicole is a senior knowledge lawyer and is responsible for ensuring that her dispute resolution colleagues stay up to date with new developments in law and practice. This involves dealing with strategic issues such as systems, policies and processes with a view to improving efficiency, managing risk and saving on costs. It also involves drafting precedents and client guides, organising and delivering training, drafting and editing legal articles, legal research and facilitating the sharing of knowledge.

Nicole runs the firm’s dispute resolution training programme and regularly presents training and seminars both within the firm and externally. She has also authored articles for numerous publications including the New Law Journal, Commercial Litigation Journal (in which for three years she co-wrote a regular column), Solicitors Journal, Procurement and Outsourcing Journal and International Bar Association Litigation News. In addition, she drafts and edits many of the commercial dispute resolution team’s publications.

A member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association, the Association of Litigation PSLs and ASK (the association of arbitration PSLs), Nicole is also a certified Legal Project Practitioner. Prior to becoming a knowledge lawyer, Nicole practised as a solicitor for over a decade, managing commercial litigation and international arbitration. She dealt with a broad range of commercial disputes including shareholder, director and partnership disputes, breach of warranty claims, general contractual disputes, supply disputes and contentious insolvency.