BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Susan Singleton
Solicitor, Publisher and Author
Runs Singletons Solicitors
Singlelaw (publishing)
History:
Nabarro Nathanson (now CMS) Articled Clerk/Trainee Solicitor
Slaughter and May, Solicitor
Bristows, Solicitor
1994 to Date : Runs own commercial solicitors (law) firm - Singletons
Member of the Law Society of England and Wales
Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
Susan Singleton is arguably one of the UK's most prolific legal authors. Despite being author of 30 books and writing regular columns in many monthly journals, her principal activity is as a solicitor with her own London firm, Singletons which specialises in competition law, intellectual property law, IT/ecommerce and general commercial law. Trained at Nabarro Nathanson (now CMS) Solicitors, she joined Slaughter and May's EC/Competition Law Department on qualifying as a solicitor, moving to Bristows, where she remained until founding her own firm in 1994. Since then she had advised over 1000 business clients. In 2015/16 she acted in the UK and CJEU challenges to new EU and UK tobacco legislation in judicial review actions. She also acted for the claimant in the first damages action for breach of the EU competition rules to come before the English courts Arkin v Borchard and Others. Her clients range from major plcs and institutions to small start up businesses.
She has updated LexisNexis' Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents (i) Advertising and Marketing Vol. 1, 2025, (ii) Services Vol. 12(1)(B), 2025, (iii) Information Technology Vol. 19(1),2024, (iv) Telecommunications part of Vol. 39(1), 2024, (v) E-Commerce Vol 13(3), 2023, (vi) Confidentiality, Vol. 12(3), 2022, (vii) Data Protection and FOIA Vol. 12(2) (A) and B) - narrative sections, 2020.
In 2010 she acquired and now publishes long standing subscription legal newsletters from Informa plc of which she still publishes IT Law Today and Finance and Credit Law, followed 3 years later by more of their journals - of which she still publishes Farm Law, Pensions Today, Education Law Monitor and Environmental Law Monthly.
She is the author of 33 law books and contributor to 49 more and has been a frequent speaker having given about 1700 legal courses/lectures since 1990 in 16 countries i.e. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Turkey in areas such as contract law, data protection and intellectual property, competition law and commercial law.
1. Until 2016 she was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association.
2. Was member of the Licensing Executives Society (EC/Laws Committee).
3. Served on the Contracts Group of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS).
4. From September 2005 - June 2010 she sat as an independent Board member on the Direct Marketing Commission.
5. She was chairman of the Pinner Hill Residents Association for ten years until July 2017.
She was married for 19 years and has five children, four of whom are solicitors. She lives in London and enjoys her children, grandchildren, singing, playing the piano and gardening. She owned a 30 acre island in Panama for ten years - Cocos Island.
Susan Singleton
Singletons
Solicitors
