Karen Harrison—Knights

A commercial contracts lawyer with more than 25 years’ experience has joined national professional services business Knights.

Karen Harrison joins the growing team at its Derby office as a partner, bringing a wealth of experience in non-contentious IT and intellectual property, data protection and freedom of information issues. Having worked both in-house and in private practice she is looking forward to growing her client base at Knights.

“The demand for support in IT, IP and data protection issues has grown rapidly,” says Karen.

“It’s now commonplace to work with IT and large amounts of data. And with the EU referendum around the corner it’s an important time in data protection law; post-referendum businesses could find themselves facing huge 20 million euro fines by 2018 if they aren’t in-line with regulations, so it’s our role to ensure clients are ready for any change.”

Andrew Pilkington, office leader says: “Since opening our new office in Derby last August, we have quickly attracted some of the best professionals in the Midlands and we have expanded our team of specialists.

“Karen will be a welcome asset to our team and will be working closely with our business experts who support a raft of clients across the region and the UK.”