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Tom Whittaker

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About

Tom is a director and solicitor advocate in the dispute resolution team. He regularly advises clients on commercially significant and complex civil disputes, investigations and inquiries for a wide range of corporate and government clients across different sectors.

He also regularly advises and trains clients on AI regulation and legal risk. Tom was recognised by Chambers and Partners 2024 and 2025 as a global market leader in AI law. He wrote the chapter on Public Law and Procurement Law and AI in the practitioner’s textbook the Law of Artificial Intelligence, alongside co-authors Rebecca Williams (Professor of Public and Criminal Law, University of Oxford), Azeem Suterwalla and Will Perry (Monckton Chambers) and Burges Salmon colleagues.

Tom holds multiple specialist accreditations in AI and, separately, disclosure technology. He lead the responses to multiple government consultations related to AI and sits on various AI working groups. He has also spoken at various conferences on AI and, separately or together, disclosure, including Legal 500 Commercial Litigation conference, Society for Computers and Law AI conference, and the Responsible AI and Risk Management Summit.

Experience

  • Multiple clients: Advising and training multiple confidential clients on AI regulation and legal risk.
  • Public Inquiry participant: Advising a core participant to a Public Inquiry in respect of its disclosure obligations and managing the significant and complex disclosure workstream.
  • International IT company: Advising on its disclosure obligations, and leading its disclosure workstream, as part of a supercomputer procurement dispute.
  • Multiple central government bodies: Advising on its disclosure obligations in their response to procurement challenges and judicial reviews, and managing disclosure workstreams.
  • Transport client and renewable energy manufacturer: Advising on internal investigations for, respectively, potential regulatory disclosures and potential litigation.
  • Accountancy practice: Advising in preparation for and response to regulator requests and investigations.
  • International defence and security company: Advising on a software licensing dispute.

Credentials

  • Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2014)
  • Solicitor Advocate (Civil) (2016)
  • Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Artificial Intelligence course (2024)
  • Ranked as a Global Market Leader for Artificial Intelligence, Chambers Global, 2024 and 2025

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“Global Market Leader in AI Law”

Chambers and Partners Global 2025

“Global Market Leader in AI Law”

Chambers and Partners Global 2024

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