Our People
Rico Calleja
Rico Calleja is a legal know-how and marketing consultant to a number of City and West End firms and provides legal training to law firms including Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, Speechly Bircham LLP and Michael Simkins LLP. Rico also provides know-how and training services to a number of in-house legal departments, including Amazon, talkbackTHAMES and BSkyB. He specialises in IP, IT, media and communications.
He is a qualified solicitor (1987) and an experienced legal editor. He is the editor of Entertainment Law Review and is on the editorial boards of World Data Protection Report, E-Commerce Law & Policy and the IT journal Computer & Telecommunications Law Review. He is also a correspondent on a number of IP journals. Rico writes and edits his own current awareness publication, The Reporter, which has been described as “best of breed” in the industry.
Louisa Hetherington
Louisa is a senior solicitor with over ten years experience practising in City firms in London. Louisa trained at Ashurst before moving to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP in 2006 and joining Calleja Consulting in 2010. She specialises in commercial, media and intellectual property law, both contentious and non-contentious, with a particular emphasis on trade marks, copyright and design right law, as well as contract and media law.
Louisa has acted in various High Court and Court of Appeal cases including Pearce v Ove Arup (2001), Associated Newspapers v Express Newspapers (2003) and Leofelis v Lonsdale Sports Limited. Before joining Calleja Consulting, clients included The Ritz Hotel, Bloomsbury Publishing, Sports World, Betfair, Johnson & Johnson, the Fashion Business Club, Kookaï, Hennes, Temperley and Monsoon. Louisa was a regular contributor of articles to the International Law Office and has published articles in Trademark World, Entertainment Law Review and Copyright World.
Gemma Cullis
Gemma Cullis is a senior solicitor whose expertise spans intellectual property, data protection and competition law. She has a particular interest in trade marks and registered designs and acted for the defendant in Oakley v Animal, the first UK registered design case under the Registered Design Regulations 2001.
Gemma has a long-standing interest in legal writing and prior to joining Calleja Consulting, wrote for the Independent and the Guardian on trade marks and ambush marketing.