In early 2023, Rebecca Wade KC took silk, becoming one of just three female criminal silks in Birmingham. Rebecca’s practice centres on serious crime, with a particular emphasis on homicide and serious sexual offences, both regionally and nationally. The cases in which she was instructed invariably involved complicated issues of law and fact and the most vulnerable people in society and frequently attracted significant media interest. The daughter of an English builder and a Brazilian mother, Rebecca’s career was prompted by her father after he saw silks portrayed in dramas. Tragically, Rebecca’s dad died when she was twelve-years old, and […]
Mike is a solicitor advocate appointed to King’s Counsel in 2023. A partner and global co-chair of Korea Group at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) in the City of London, Mike has expertise in arbitration, court, and expert determination proceedings, with particular experience in the energy, construction, infrastructure, and financial services sectors. Growing up just outside Reading, Mike had no family or professional links with the law but at school he had a great love of debating and mooting, and a career in advocacy felt like a natural choice for him. Mike relished the adversarial aspects of his legal training and […]