Legal Team
We are an exclusively online business offering legal documents for commerce. Several lawyers contribute to our catalogue, each with expertise in different areas of commercial and construction law. Between them they have over 150 years of experience in drafting contracts and you can benefit from this experience at very low cost when you purchase contracts here.
 | Giles is the founder and managing director of ContractStore. It was his idea to set up a company selling documents online and he has played a major part in the company's development. He is an English solicitor, with over thirty years' experience of drafting and negotiating commercial and construction contracts in the UK and overseas. He has long been convinced that there is a quicker and simpler approach to the delivery and supply of most contracts, and he is an active proponent of the use of plain English in legal documents. Giles specialises in the drafting of construction and engineering contracts and as well as contributing contracts to the ContractStore website, he is co-author of the JCT Constructing Excellence Contract, published in 2007 (and its predecessor, the Be Collaborative Contract, which is available from ContractStore). When not working on ContractStore, he has his own legal practice – information can be found on www.gilesdixon.com.
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 | Xie Rong is a Chinese lawyer who has been living in England for some years. She is the first lawyer from mainland China to have received a licence from the Law Society in England to practice in the UK. As an active member of the ContractStore team, she is not only involved in the production of our contracts in Chinese, but also provides advice on doing business in China to foreign investors. She was instrumental in setting up our Chinese website – www.contractstore.cn |
 | Derek is a dual qualified English solicitor and US lawyer, having received legal education in both England and the US. He is currently in-house corporate counsel at a large multinational medical device company. With his extensive experience of drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, he has contributed to the US contracts section of ContractStore's catalogue. |
 | Sharonjeev has 10 years experience as a solicitor in commercial, corporate and intellectual property law, with particular interest in the pharmaceutical industry and life sciences, a subject on which she has written a number of papers. Having worked with US law firms in the City of London before becoming a freelance consultant, she has wide experience of the drafting and negotiation of documentation. Sharon is also a member of the Women in Business Network. For more information www.gilesdixon.com/consultant |
 | Judith is a solicitor with her own practice and her specialist skills include all aspects of commercial property law and business law. With nearly 30 years experience in the law, she has worked in industry as well as private practice. Her practice was formed in 1997 and she provides specialist business legal services to public and private institutions and individuals. For more information see www.judithmlongsolicitors.co.uk |
 | Frederique is an in-house lawyer, with expertise in commercial and intellectual property law. Frederique has a business background in the creative sector, and has enjoyed working either as an employee or a consultant for varying types of organisations, ranging from family-run businesses and start-ups, to large public-sector organisations and charities. She is particularly interested in the day-to-day contractual issues affecting SME’s, and the ever-evolving resourcing requirements of their in-house legal function.
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| | Paul is a solicitor based in Shrewsbury. He read classics at Cambridge University and then law at the College of Law in Chester. He was a partner in a Shrewsbury firm for some twenty years dealing with property and litigation matters for private and commercial clients. Paul is now a consultant with P C B Solicitors (www.pcbsolicitors.co.uk) in Shrewsbury specialising in property matters for clients including developers, landlords and tenants. He may be contacted at paul.fowler@pcblaw.co.uk.
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| | Kong Wei is a Chinese lawyer and a partner in the Zhonglun law firm in Shanghai. He specialises in corporate and commercial law, and has worked for some time in a London law firm. With Xie Rong he selects the contracts for translation and adaptation for the Chinese market. He also advises on regulatory matters affecting Contractstore's Chinese website. For more information see www.zhonglun.com
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| | Jeremy is a solicitor and one of the founding shareholders. He specialises in the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts and advises on major oil and infrastructure projects. He has been living in Dubai for many years where he set up his own law firm in 1996.
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