Jamie Lester Solicitor | Pursuing a Dynamic Legal Career<br /><br />Many solicitors who join the legal field select areas of specialisation in order to develop expertise and better serve their clients. Jamie Lester has been a solicitor since he qualified back in 2001, and has a wide range of unique and complementary practice areas. Currently, Jamie Lester is with Hunters Solicitors. He is a partner at the firm and a member of the Dispute Resolution Department. Jamie Lester joined Hunters Solicitors back in January of 2013. Before coming to Hunters Solicitors, Jamie Lester was with Curry Popeck Solicitors. There, he was a partner and the head of both the Employment and the Litigation Departments.<br /><br />Now, Jamie Lester focuses his law practice on achieving good outcomes for his clients in a number of complicated, high-value matters. His practice areas include insolvency, professional negligence, high value commercial litigation, property, employment, wills, trusts, probate, risk management, intellectual property, insurance and various other areas. Jamie Lester has particular experience in the area of defamation. He once pursued an action against a national newspaper for a high profile international sports celebrity. This well-known case gave Jamie Lester the experience needed to develop some intriguing insights into changes in the defamation law. <br /><br />Jamie Lester produced an article about the Defamation Act 2013 discussing how the legislation seeks to address a perceived imbalance in the law that made it arguably primarily pro-Claimant. Now, Jamie Lester discusses the balancing of the right to privacy and the right to freedom of expression. Previously, the law of defamation has been criticised as far too restrictive on the freedom of speech. Jamie Lester analyses steps that were taken in this legislation to address that concern, such as the new standards for peer-reviewed statements in academic and scientific journals. <br /><br />This article is not the only one in which Jamie Lester has offered some intriguing insights. He wrote a previous article for Law Matters, a publication for Hunters Solicitors in which he discusses the potential for laws in Guernsey which may afford additional protection to clients wanting to protect their personalities and image as items of property. <br /><br />Jamie Lester is involved in other groups and organisations as well. Notably, he belongs to the American Bankruptcy Institute, a group he joined in September of 2013. He is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Arts Depot, a cultural charity group in North London.