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Helene Pines Richman is a specialist and highly regarded expert in the fields of commercial / property law and private client. She has been called "a role model for women at the English Bar," and is recommended in the UK Legal Experts as well as the Legal 500. Her practice covers banking, other commercial disputes, real property, probate, trusts and estates and professional negligence, with an emphasis on litigation. She is a thorough and tenacious advocate with an in depth and unusually wide-ranging knowledge and considerable creative flair.
She began practising law in New York City in 1983 having gained Honours in bioengineering and anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania (Ivy League) and thereafter a Juris Doctor from the National Law Centre of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. For many years she specialised in intellectual property law with a large international law firm in New York. Thereafter she branched out into commercial law and built a reputation as a trial and appellate lawyer appearing regularly in the state and Federal courts. She also authored six well-known books on intellectual property law and taught it in law school. She continues to be a member of the New York Bar, is able to appear in the Federal courts of the U.S., and takes on commercial cases with a cross-border element particularly involving U.S. interests. In 1990 she relocated to London. Since then she has appeared in the House of Lords in the well-known Etridge Mortgage cases, having successfully argued the petition for leave to their Lordships. She also appeared in the Court of Appeal in Clegg v Andersson t/a Nordic Marine, a widely commented upon and seminal case on the Sale of Goods Act and an expensive defective yacht. Recently, she finished two multi-party long-running cases involving the niche areas of riparian rights and manorial rights. One of them, Boarer v Maciw (Chancery Division) also involved rectification under the Land Registration Act 2002. In the other case, she represented a local authority in an action which additionally dealt with manorial rights, easements and adverse possession. The senior judge referred to her skeleton arguments as, "the finest he had seen in his entire career at the Bar and in the Judiciary". Helene Pines Richman has been involved in many large-scale group banking cases, including BCCI. She routinely acts for both large institutions (including the Big 4 Banks) as well as individuals. She is also a well-known figure having served as Chairwoman of the Association of Women Barristers for two years during which Baroness Hale of Richmond QC was President. She is a past panel member of the Lord Chancellor's Working Party on Equal Opportunities in Judicial Appointments and Silk and has for many years sat on the Council of the Inns of Court Disciplinary Tribunal, Bar Standards Board Indicative Sanctions Guidelines Committee, the Bar Council's Advisory Committee, and the Bar Pro Bono Unit. She is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, the Commercial Bar Association, the Bar Council Indicative Sanctions Committee and the Society of English and American Lawyers. Helene Pines Richman frequently presents seminars on various aspects of commercial and property law both with CLT and her chambers, 9 Stone Buildings. She has been a featured lecturer for many years at the CLT's annual all-day Banking Law Seminar, and is a frequent contributor to legal journals, including the Law Society's PS Journal (Monthly) and the New Law Journal. She has also appeared on the BBC and on Radio 4 as a commentator on legal issues involving banking, property and international law. Principal Areas of Practice:- Banking, mortgages and other secured transactions, commercial disputes, real property including easements, restrictive covenants, boundaries, manorial rights, commons, riparian rights, water and seashore, landlord and tenant, and planning, partnerships and joint ventures, personal insolvency, professional negligence, trusts of land and co-ownership, ancillary relief, wills, inheritance tax, charities, trusts, probate, administration and Inheritance Act claims, intellectual property and international law, Court of Protection. Cases:
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