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Giuliana brings a blend of private practice experience and regional market insight to her work in the legal sector. Having worked alongside legal professionals within the UK and across the Caribbean, she has developed a strong understanding of how legal services operate across diverse jurisdictions and client landscapes.
Dylan covers the latest trends impacting the practice of the law. Follow him for interviews with leading firms, tips to refine your talent strategy, or anything technology and innovation.

Hilton Mervis is a leading disputes lawyer at McDermott with nearly 30 years’ experience litigating and resolving high-value, complex, and multi-jurisdictional disputes. He advises corporations, private equity firms, hedge funds, and high-net-worth individuals across matters including alternative investment disputes, civil fraud, banking and contractual claims, shareholder and corporate governance issues, and financial services litigation. A solicitor advocate, Hilton is also a member of the Commercial Court Users Committee, Chair of the London Commercial Litigators’ Forum, and editor of key commercial litigation texts.

 

Keely is a Lead Paralegal at LexisNexis UK managing an international team of paralegals supporting ten Practical Guidance modules. She graduated with a first class LLB from the University of Greenwich and went on to obtain an LLM with Commendation at the University of Law. She supports the Corporate Crime and Financial Crime Compliance Practice Areas.

Ian McDougall is President of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation; A charitable organisation registered in the US and established to advance the Rule of Law.

He is a Professor at IE University in Madrid, teaching the Rule of Law, Freedom of Speech in the Digital Age, and Artificial Intelligence & the legal profession. In 2025 Mr. McDougall was appointed as Chair of the Bowls Development Alliance. Since 2023 he has been a Trustee of the Civil Liberties Trust in the UK and since 2024 Trustee of the International Bar Association Foundation.

Until September 2024 Mr. McDougall was the Executive Vice President and General Counsel for LexisNexis, having been with LexisNexis for 20 years. At LexisNexis, Mr. McDougall stepped into various roles, including CEO – AsiaPac, HR Director and Managing Director for LexisNexis New Zealand.

He is a Consulting Editor of Halsbury’s Laws of England and General Editor of “Cases That Changed Our Lives”.
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