Adam Zellick
Call date
2000
Practice Areas
Adam Zellick has a strong, broad-based commercial practice with a particular emphasis on:
- Arbitration and arbitration appeals
- Aviation
- Banking
- Civil Fraud
- Commercial Litigation
- Conflict of laws
- Insurance/reinsurance
- Professional negligence
Adam has very extensive experience in these areas of practice. He is equally at home in all forms of commercial dispute resolution whether commencing in the Commercial Court, the Chancery Division, the Queen’s Bench Division or in international arbitration and his cases include the heaviest, multi-party, expert-intensive, high value, publicity-sensitive commercial actions and arbitrations. Adam aims to bring a client-focused, pragmatic, thorough and good-humoured approach to every case.
Recommendations (Practitioners' Guides)
Legal Week
In 2008, Legal Week featured Adam in its top ten Future Stars of the Bar. Legal Week declared “He is a match for any silk” and identified Adam as “tough, technically brilliant” and “great fun”.
Chambers and Partners
Adam is listed by Chambers and Partners 2012 as a recommended junior in Banking and Finance and Commercial Dispute Resolution.
Commentary from Chambers and Partners 2012 and previous years has included:
“The ‘extremely bright’ Adam Zellick ‘rolls his sleeves up and is very tenacious.’ Sources add: ‘He is tactically spot-on and offers a strong commercial point of view.’ He is a market favourite” (Chambers and Partners 2012, Banking and Finance)
“Those who instruct Adam Zellick endorse him as a ‘tenacious’ junior who ‘gets stuck in.’ Solicitors say that he ‘always adds value.’” (Chambers and Partners 2012, Commercial Dispute Resolution)
“Adam Zellick is ‘adaptable, intelligent and incredibly user-friendly.’ Solicitors praise his ‘incredible work ethic’ and his ‘ability to deliver a perfect work product time after time.’ (Chambers and Partners 2011, Commercial Dispute Resolution)
Adam is “highly intelligent and incredibly user-friendly.” (Chambers and Partners 2010)
Adam is “smart and user-friendly” and “is particularly adept at civil fraud and freezing injunctions” (Chambers and Partners 2009)
Adam Zellick is a “junior pegged for future stardom” (Chambers and Partners 2008, which further described him as bringing a “perceptive and nuanced touch” to “an extensive commercial practice.”)
Legal 500
Adam is ranked in the Legal 500 for 2011 in the following 5 categories: Aviation, Banking and Finance, Commercial Litigation, Civil Fraud, and International Arbitration.
Commentary from the Legal 500 includes the following:
“Adam Zellick is ‘a true asset to a team; procedurally brilliant, and tactically and commercially astute’” (Legal 500, 2011, Aviation)
“an outstanding advocate” (Legal 500, 2011, Banking and Finance)
“The ‘excellent’ Adam Zellick is ‘highly professional, with expert knowledge in commercial law’.” (Legal 500, 2011, International Arbitration)
“Adam Zellick is ‘a very effective junior’” (Legal 500, 2010, Civil Fraud)
“Adam Zellick is, ‘without doubt, a star in the making’.” (Legal 500, 2009, Leading Commercial Sets)
“Adam Zellick ‘delivers a first-class work product’ being ‘highly intelligent and incredibly user-friendly’.” (Legal 500, 2009, Commercial Arbitration)
“Adam Zellick is ‘very willing, “rolls up his sleeves”, and is easy to just pick up the phone to’.” (Legal 500, 2009, Commercial Litigation)
“Adam Zellick ‘…is very analytical, and takes a sensible, realistic view on the way to proceed’.” (Legal 500, 2009, Civil Fraud)
Legal Experts
As in past years, Legal Experts 2012 has identified Adam as a Legal Expert in Commercial Litigation, Fraud (asset recovery) and International Commercial Arbitration
Education
MA (Cantab)
Prizes & Scholarships
Middle Temple:
Queen Mother Scholar, 1999
Sachs Prize, 2000
Cambridge University:
Squire Scholar, 1997, 1998
Caius College:
Tapp Postgraduate Scholar in Law, 1999
Senior Scholar, 1998
Scholar, 1997
Frere Smith Prize for Law, 1999
Sir William McNair Law Prize, 1997, 1998
Sir William McNair Mooting Prize, 1997
Publications
Author, Civil Aviation, Atkin’s Court Forms (2006 and 2010)
Contributor, Bullen and Leake and Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings (14th edn, Sweet & Maxwell, 2000)
Former contributor and law reporter, Civil Procedure Reports (“The White Book Law Reports”, Sweet & Maxwell)
Occasional contributor to journals and magazines
Other Experience
Supervisor in Law, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (2001–02)
Research Assistant, Law Commission of England and Wales (2000–01)
Vice-Chairman, Burma Justice Committee, 2007–
Amicus Curiae (with others) to the United States Supreme Court in the cases of Rasul v Bush, Hamdan v Rumsfeld and Boumediene v Bush
Author, Bar Council evidence to Parliament on the Constitutional Renewal Bill, 2008
Member, Bar Council Working Group on the Governance of Britain and Constitutional Reform, 2007–08
Instructed by the Bar Council to advise in relation to the creation of the Ministry of Justice, 2007
Occasional lecturer/instructor, College of Law
Member: COMBAR, LCLCBA, South Eastern Circuit, BILA, British Association for Sport and Law
Interests
Running (including the London Marathon, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2010), sport, films