Former White & Case construction partner Rebecca Shorter has joined leading London construction set Crown Office Chambers.
Shorter, who qualified as a solicitor-advocate in 2023, has been accepted as a tenant after leaving White & Case last September to undertake a pupillage.
The chair of the Society of Construction Law (SCL) focuses on resolving disputes arising from complex construction, engineering, energy and infrastructure projects. Shorter is experienced in international and domestic arbitration, litigation and alternative methods of dispute resolution, including dispute boards, adjudication and mediation.
Andrew Rigney KC, joint head of Crown Office Chambers, said: “It is a real pleasure to welcome Rebecca to chambers. Her practice in construction, engineering, energy and international arbitration is a perfect fit for the chambers, and she will strengthen our offering to clients in these areas. I am sure Rebecca will flourish at the Bar.”
Shorter said: “I am really excited to be transferring to the Bar and joining Crown Office Chambers, which is such a strong set in my field of work. I had the pleasure of working with several members of chambers whilst at White & Case and look forward to working with my new colleagues and the excellent clerking team and building my practice at the Bar.”
Writing on LinkedIn, she said her new colleagues were “as talented and friendly a group of people as you could ever hope to meet”, with fellow SCL members and law firm partners alike celebrating the move.
A White & Case spokesperson said: “We would like to wish Rebecca every success as she takes this next step in her career.”
Shorter trained and then qualified as a solicitor in 2009 with the London and Kent firm Cripps Harries Hall and joined White & Case via a spell at Maxwell Winward, spending 11 years at the US firm, six of them as a partner in London and Paris. She was a member of the Paris Bar from 2021 to 2024.
She is not the first White & Case lawyer to join the set: in 2023, Sophie Ashford joined the chambers.
Ashford, a former judicial assistant to Dame Victoria Sharp, president of the King’s Bench Division and the Court of Appeal, trained as a commercial litigation solicitor at White & Case in its London and Singapore offices, spending a year in commercial disputes on both arbitration and civil litigation cases, six months on secondment in-house at Nestlé and six months in the financial restructuring and insolvency team.
In March, commercial and insurance junior James Sharpe left Crown Office Chambers for 3VB.
Earlier this month, commercial and construction silk Karim Ghaly KC moved from 39 Essex Chambers to Atkin Chambers.
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