Our Experts

Clare is the content director. In this role, she is responsible for the group content strategy and the content output for a number of our intelligence platforms, including Global Competition Review, Global Data Review, IAM, Latin Lawyer, Lexology and World Trademark Review. She joined the business in 2005 as a reporter on Latin Lawyer and has worked in a number of content roles, including a publisher for a range of platforms. 

Dan joined Globe Business Media Group in 2004 as a web developer, leading multiple software products to become Development manager in 2013. Since Law Business Research’s acquisition of Globe in 2018, Dan has worked as Head of Software Development across the business.

Marieke’s specialism is the law and practice of international investigations. She oversees news, analysis and special projects, and occasionally still writes. Marieke has been writing for a global legal audience since 2010. She is the editor of Global Investigations Review, having joined the publication ahead of its launch in 2014 as news editor.

Ben spent five years working at a UK top 50 law firm specialising in defendant insurance litigation before moving on to take roles with a number of different NGOs in India and the Middle East. He wrote for a mix of Middle East-focused news portals in the UK and US before joining GRR.

Liesl is the lead knowledge management lawyer for LexPro. Liesl has 5 years’ experience as a professional support lawyer at Lexis Nexis, working in the In-House Advisor Module. Prior to that she worked as the commercial affairs legal director managing a team of lawyers at Royal Mail. She reported to the general counsel and her team was responsible for providing legal advice to the core commercial business on various areas including risk, product development, procurement, as well as supporting the data business. Liesl also worked as a commercial lawyer in private practice both in London and South Africa. Liesl is responsible for the development and production of practical resource content for LexPro, in conjunction with the legal editor. Liesl is qualified as a solicitor in both South Africa and England and Wales.

Antonio is a senior product manager at Law Business Research.  Prior to his current role, Antonio was the Product and Content Manager for the Legal Careers Group for over seven years, where he led on several strategic projects, including major transformation programmes and developing new market-leading digital products. Antonio graduated from Queen Mary, University of London with a law degree and has over 14 years’ experience working in the legal information sector.

Kyriaki has overseen the development and growth of GRR since its launch in 2016. She has been a journalist on various Law Business Research publications for more than a decade, and once appeared on a conference panel about international arbitration in Canada with the BBC’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Durham and received a student journalism award for her MA in Multimedia Journalism from Bournemouth University.

Trevor Little has been editor of WTR since 2009. As a legal and business journalist for over 25 years, Trevor has headed up titles across a range of industries, covering issues as diverse as not-for-profit sector management, the business applications of new technologies and risk management. Throughout his career, Trevor has written extensively on the issues surrounding corporate reputation and identity, brand management and business development. He has also been interviewed about brand and trademark issues on national radio and spoken at a range of international trademark and brand protection events.

Tom manages GCR’s editorial team across London, Hong Kong and Washington, DC, having covered global antitrust developments since joining Law Business Research in 2015. Before that, he was a trainee solicitor at a leading UK law firm and a researcher at a Middle Eastern think-tank. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Durham.

Alex Morrall is Chief Product Officer at Law Business Research and is responsible for product development across the group’s brands. His role is to apply technology to legal content and workflows to deliver seamless client experiences, and his team plays a central role in driving the business’s growth strategy. Prior to joining Law Business Research, Alex worked at Practical Law Company during its rapid growth. 

Alison is editor of Lexology PRO Compliance. She has extensive experience writing for legal and compliance departments. Prior to this, Alison served as the editor for the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) providing detailed news and analysis on key trends impacting the in-house teams, as well as updates on major legal and regulatory developments. She has been writing for a global legal audience since 2013. Alison has gained a deep understanding of the specific needs and challenges faced by legal and compliance officers working in businesses across industries.

Avni started at Law Business Research in 2015 as a Research Analyst on WWL. She is now Head of Research and Co-Chair of LBR’s Women’s Network. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Durham in History and Spanish, and the GDL at BPP University.

Sebastian Perry has worked at GAR since 2010, including as Acting Editor, Features Editor and News Reporter. Before that, he was a sub-editor for LBR’s production department and a reporter for another LBR publication, Latin Lawyer. He has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, an MA in English Renaissance Literature from the University of York and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the London School of Journalism.

Tyler joined the Docket Navigator team shortly after graduating from law school. During his time at Docket Navigator, he has focused on bolstering the company’s Trademark offerings and assisted in developing a CAFC product for the Patent practice area.

Justin made the transition to Law after managing healthcare support teams and Neurosurgical research at OHSU. He joined Docket Navigator after a two year clerkship in Virginia and now works solving data problems, teaching/user-training, building tools, and operations management.

After law school, Luke clerked for the Honorable E. Scott Frost in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas for two years. Since coming to Docket Navigator, he has contributed in several practice areas, including Patent (USDC, CAFC, and PTAB), Trademark, Copyright, and Antitrust.

Levi trained as a cognitive psychology researcher in college and graduate school before pivoting to Management Information Systems at Texas A&M. He joined Docket Navigator directly out of school and now applies computing and statistical techniques toward data transformation, chart building, and machine learning.

David is the longest serving journalist at Law Business Research. Since joining in 1999, he has run sister sites Global Competition Review and Latin Lawyer (as a locum), launched Global Arbitration Review, Global Investigations Review, Global Restructuring Review and Global Banking Regulation Review, and organised numerous conferences under those brands. He read law at Oxford and Cambridge. 

Douglas has overseen the development of GBRR since it was launched in 2020. He was previously deputy editor of GBRR’s sister title Global Restructuring Review (GRR), and cut his teeth as a reporter on Global Arbitration Review (GAR). He is a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, where he read English Literature, and City Law School, where he undertook the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Professional Training Course, being called to the bar at Inner Temple in 2012.

Darryl is chief executive officer of Docket Navigator. Before founding Docket Navigator, Darryl was a patent litigator for more than ten years. With extensive experience as a trial attorney at Jones Day with a focus on complex patent litigation, Darryl is uniquely suited to lead the Docket Navigator team. LBR acquired Docket Navigator in August 2021.

Tom is Global Data Review’s editor. He writes and edits GDR news and features from London, and oversees all of its editorial operations. Tom first joined GDR’s publisher, Law Business Research, as a reporter for Global Competition Review in mid-2013; he headed to the initial reporting team of sister publication Global Investigations Review later that year, before returning to GCR to start running its London desk in mid-2015, where he specialised in covering UK and EU antitrust litigation and appeals against enforcers’ decisions. Tom now writes about all areas of the law affecting data, but continues to be particularly interested in private litigation linked to companies’ use and monetisation of data. He has a law with French law degree from University College London and a master’s degree in journalism from City, University of London.

Joff Wild is a journalist who has specialised in covering IP since 1992. During that time he has written for a number of IP-focused titles, as well as publications such as The Times, The Financial Times  and The Wall Street Journal. He was editor-in-chief of the IP and Data Division of Globe Business Publishing and then Law Business Research from 2003 to 2021. He is now editor-at large for IAM and WTR.

Rupert is Head of Analytics for Performance Data at Law Business Research.  Rupert read history at university before doing a law conversion and then the Bar course. Rupert joined LBR in 2016 as editor of Who’s Who Legal, before moving to his current role in April 2021.