Lizzie Williams

Partner

Lizzie Williams is a partner and solicitor advocate specialising in commercial litigation.

Lizzie has a diverse commercial disputes practice and wide-ranging experience of litigation and arbitration including urgent injunctions, appeals and group litigation. Lizzie acts for a wide range of clients, from high net worth individuals to large corporates, including technology companies, established brands across a broad range of industries, public sector entities and startups.

Lizzie has particular expertise in commercial disputes involving technology companies or relating to innovative technologies or digital transformation. Lizzie advises on disputes involving emerging technologies (including artificial intelligence, digital assets and blockchain) as well as traditional IT disputes (involving hardware, software development, outsourcing and licensing). Lizzie also advises on the management and resetting of distressed digital transformation projects as well as disputes involving technology investments, technology procurement and online payment frauds.

Lizzie is recognised as a “Key Lawyer” in Commercial Litigation and Artificial Intelligence in The Legal 500. Clients say Lizzie “is the best commercial litigator around” and praise her “calm, responsive and very creative approach delivered with considerable expertise”.

Lizzie is the author of the Practical Law practice note AI Disputes and Risk Mitigation and the book A Practical Guide to Smart Contracts and the Law and regularly speaks at industry events.

Lizzie graduated from the University of Cambridge with a First Class degree in Law in 2010 before training and qualifying at Herbert Smith Freehills, where she worked on a variety of complex litigation and arbitration matters for a number of years, before joining Harbottle & Lewis in 2017. Lizzie is a member of the Society for Computers & Law, the Tech Disputes Network, the Cyber Fraud and Asset Recovery Network and the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center.