Harry trained at Slaughter and May in London (2021-23), where he was awarded numerous departmental and cohort-wide prizes for submission of legal know-how.
A flavour of his broad experience at Slaughter and May:
- In the Disputes & Investigations department, he assisted on the Municipio de Mariana appeal (the largest class action in English legal history), as well as long-running competition litigation, and drafted training materials for FTSE 100 companies on consumer and competition law.
- In Financing, he researched and drafted a detailed note of advice on conflicts of law.
- In Employment, Pensions, and Incentives, he researched and drafted substantive technical correspondence, notes of advice on whistleblowing, industrial action, transgender and intersex inclusion in sport.
- In Corporate, he advised FTSE 100 clients on preparing for AGMs and researched matters relating to a CMA greenwashing / consumer protection matter.
- Throughout his training contract, Harry maintained a busy pro bono practice. He volunteered for St Luke’s Job Clinic, advised a client for Access Social Care, prepared materials for an entrepreneurship scheme with Barclays, researched and advised on charities law, drafted training materials for charity trustees, and participated in community projects and outreach.
During his LL.M. year, Harry served as research assistant to Professor and former Dean of Yale Law School Robert Post (preparing the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy), and to Professor Fiona Scott Morton (preparing journal articles on American and EU antitrust law). Journals: Senior Submissions Advisor, Yale Law & Policy Review; Articles & Essays Editor, Yale Law & Policy Review; Articles Editor, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism; Lead Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation; Notes and Comments Editor, Yale Journal of Law & Humanities.
During the BCL, Harry served as research assistant to Professor Jérôme Baudry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He also wrote a moot problem on consumer contract law for the compulsory mooting course for first-year law students on the BA in Jurisprudence at Oxford. In addition, Harry was employed by the Oxford Faculty of Law as the coach for Oxford’s team in the international Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2023/24. Equally as enjoyable and no less important, Harry also played Eugene in the musical Grease at Pembroke College and served as the assistant lighting / sound operator for A Series of Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis: The Musical.
Until indefinitely postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Harry was due to serve as the Foreign Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, Esther Hayut, having been selected in a competitive international application process.
