With law degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, Baruch Baigel’s resume is typical of the top-flight lawyers in the running for English Law Society awards later this month. But it holds one surprise — he has never practised law from a UK office.
For the last five years, Mr Baigel, a 30-year-old who grew up in Edgware, has worked for Asserson Law Offices, a firm that practises British law and works in the British courts — but from Israel.
There are 18 British-qualified lawyers working from its Tel Aviv offices, doing all the same work that they would be if they were sitting in the City of London.
“The type of work I have been doing from our little firm in Tel Aviv rivals the level of work my contemporaries have been doing at top firms in London,” he said. “The only difference is that I am doing so gazing at the Mediterranean in the sun and working in an office block containing dozens of kosher restaurants and even a shul for afternoon prayers.”
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