| Leon was called to the bar by Lincoln's
Inn in 2010 and started practice at Ten Old Square in October 2011 following
the successful completion of his pupillage. He was a Hardwick, Lord Mansfield
and Levitt Scholar of Lincoln's Inn.
He is developing a practice covering
a broad range of chancery and commercial disciplines, including litigation,
contentious and non-contentious drafting and advisory work in property,
landlord and tenant, tax, insolvency, companies, partnership, fraud, trusts,
probate and estates matters.
Leon recently spent three months
retained by a leading private client firm, where he advised on a wide range
of contentious trust, charity and estate matters relating to English, offshore
and cross-border disputes. He has given seminars on intestate succession
and on limitation factors in relation to claims against estates.
Prior to coming to the Bar Leon taught
Old English literature and critical methodology at Oxford and delivered
a number of academic papers. He graduated with a first class undergraduate
degree and was awarded a distinction for his MPhil.
Leon is an accredited Mediator and
a member of the Chancery Bar Association.
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