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3 Stone Buildings opened its first New York office in October 2002, and in January 2005 we moved to Rockefeller Plaza, in Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan. We offer all our US based professional services from this office, and several members of chambers are dual qualified as Barristers and US attorneys and regularly practice from New York.

Teresa Rosen Peacocke is dual qualified as a barrister and New York attorney. In 2006, she was joined by Ian Watson, who qualified at the New York bar in 1993, before also qualifying in the UK. In 2008 we also welcomed Jonathan Redwood as a door tenant, who is qualified in Australia and New York.

Chambers were acclaimed International Chambers of the Year 2008-9 as part of the Private Client Awards of the Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners. In presenting the award STEP described 3 Stone Buildings’ US/UK expertise as a “huge strength.”

We remain the only English barristers chambers with an office in New York. Our success, and unique status, in New York are principally derived from our long-standing professional contacts in the US and the Caribbean, our continued commitment to bringing the specialist skills of barristers to clients based outside the UK, and to expanding our expertise as barristers in the global legal market.

American clients in particular may appreciate a brief explanation of the difference between barristers and solicitors.

Principal work of the New York office

Members of chambers are regularly instructed as barristers by clients based in the US and Canada.  The New York office allows us contact with clients in New York for their convenience.

Members of chambers also accept instructions through the New York office from clients who have no established relationship with English solicitors, and we regularly refer clients to UK solicitors and liaise with them to provide the full range of English legal services.

A great innovation of chambers in New York has been our ability to act on the instructions of clients in the UK in international arbitration proceedings conducted in New York and elsewhere in the United States, whether under English or American law. Our New York office is only steps away from the headquarters of the American Arbitration Association and the North America office of the International Chamber of Commerce. We are increasingly called upon to act in mediations conducted in New York for clients based all over the world.

The New York office is also particularly well-placed for New York based alternative dispute resolution and has facilities available for arbitration hearings, mediations and settlement meetings.

Members of chambers are engaged through the New York office to act as expert witnesses on UK law in US litigation and arbitrations, and those who are dual qualified in the US and UK also provide expert evidence on US law in English proceedings.

 

Contact details:

10 Rockefeller Plaza
16th floor
New York NY 10020-1903
tel: (1) 212 713 7680
fax: (1) 212 713 7679
clerks@3sb.law.co.uk

Important information

Nature of the Office
3 Stone Buildings, like all English barristers chambers, is not a legal entity, and has no corporate or collective legal identity of any kind. All barristers practising from chambers are self-employed individuals in independent private practice. By their professional Code of Conduct, barristers are prohibited from practising in partnership, sharing profits or engaging in a joint professional venture.


3 Stone Buildings New York is the name used to refer to the New York office of 3 Stone Buildings, and is not a legal entity. Barristers practising from 3 Stone Buildings New York are also independent practitioners in private practice. 3 Stone Buildings New York is not a joint venture of members of 3 Stone Buildings.