Jonathan Hilliard named as a 'Future Star of the Bar'

1/10/2007

Jonathan Hilliard is featured in The Times article 'Future Stars of the Bar'. Only ten barristers were listed and all were less than ten years call.

The piece focussing on Jonathan reads:

Jonathan Hilliard
Wilberforce Chambers

Year of call 2003: First-class Oxbridge degrees are no big deal at the top end of the Bar. So to stand out academically you've got to do something seriously special. Like finish top in your year, in both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Jonathan Hilliard's remarkable double isn't the only thing that sets him out from the junior Chancery barrister crowd. The Wilberforce Chambers tenant also has great people skills and an ability to put complex ideas into straightforward language, according to his colleagues. In other words, he has it all. No wonder he is in demand. Of late, he has acted alongside Brian Green QC, in the world's biggest ever arbitration: a dispute relating to re-nationalisation of the Russian Oil industry, valued at $50 billion. He also assisted in a large pensions case dealing with equal treatment for men and women policy holders. However, it looks like he may have met his match - currently Hilliard is acting for Leeds United, the beleaguered football club, in its bid to have a fifteen poinlty imposed by the league overturned.

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