Laurence Slattery

Background

Laurence Slattery was born in England. His legal education took place in London and Oxford, and it preceded a career that moved from a London training contract into intellectual property and technology practice.

Education

Slattery studied law at the London School of Economics, a college of the University of London, where he took an LL.B. in 1982. The London School of Economics was founded in 1895 by members of the Fabian Society and has long emphasized the social sciences alongside law.

He then studied at the University of Oxford, completing the Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) in 1984. The B.C.L. is a postgraduate law degree at Oxford, and it reflects the university's emphasis on advanced legal study.

In 2004 he completed an LL.M. in intellectual property and competition law at University College London. University College London was founded in 1826 as part of the newly established University of London, and it admitted students without religious tests, a distinction that set it apart from the older English universities.

Career

Slattery began his professional career with a training contract at Linklaters from 1985 to 1988, after which he was placed in the firm's banking department. Linklaters traces its origins to 1838, when John Linklater and Julius Dods established a partnership in London, and it is widely regarded as one of the Magic Circle group of leading City firms. He qualified as a solicitor in 1987 and was admitted to the bar in England in 1988.

From 1988 to 1993 he was an associate in the intellectual property and information technology law department of Baker & McKenzie. The firm was founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie and grew into a global practice. His work there combined non-contentious matters with High Court litigation, and he was seconded to an international client and spent time in the firm's San Francisco office.

From 1993 to 2000 he practised through Gordons, a firm he founded with two former colleagues. During the same period he acted as an intellectual property law consultant to Andersen Consulting, which later became Accenture.

From 2000 to 2002 he worked as an in-house lawyer for Service Works Limited, an IT company based in London with offices in North America and Australia. In 2002 and 2003 he covered maternity leave for the European Head of Legal at Sapient Limited. From 2003 to 2006 he worked as a consultant in commercial intellectual property and media law at Teacher Stern.

He was seconded to MKTV for eighteen months and then spent two years seconded to the Design and Purchase divisions of Nissan, based in Cranfield. From 2006 to 2015 he was a partner at TKP, and he also worked as a partner of TETHER.

From 2015 to 2020 he was a company and commercial partner at Candey. Candey describes itself as an elite disputes law firm specialising in high-value commercial litigation and arbitration, with offices in London and New York. The firm was established in 2009.

Since 2020 he has been a senior lawyer in the commercial practice at Radius Law.

References

• Radius Law team profile: Laurence Slattery The Radius Law team page describes Slattery's role as a senior lawyer in commercial practice and lists his qualifications, including degrees from the London School of Economics, Oxford, and University College London, and his career from 1985 onward.