Today’s junior members of the commercial and chancery Bar look upon their practices with an increasingly international eye, bolstering London’s position as a centre for international disputes.
Anton Dudnikov, of Essex Court Chambers, says that “pretty much all of my cases have a strong international element”. Dudnikov, a specialist in Russian and CIS work, says clients find it helpful he is a native Russian speaker; “as a result, I’ve picked up some really interesting, varied work”, ranging from a Russian fine art dispute to a US $175m fraud trial for a Russian bank.
