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Pamela V. Phillips, born Kingston, Jamaica, 1954. She holds an LL.B. (Honours) degree from the University of the West Indies. Admitted to practice in 1977, she joined the firm of Samuel Hart & Co. as an associate, gaining experience in real estate and commercial transactions. She migrated to Canada in 1979 where she worked as a legal clerk and title searcher. Returning to Jamaica, she joined National Continental Corporation Limited, a large manufacturing company, as Legal Advisor and Company Secretary. In addition to handling the companyıs real estate and commercial transactions, including the winding-up of a real estate development subsidiary, she handled administrative matters and acted as Company Secretary and Registrar. Between 1988 and 1995, she acted as Group Legal Advisor and Company Secretary to the Eagle Financial Group of Companies, handling their commercial, real estate and loan transactions, in particular, the preparation of security documentation for single institution and syndicated loans. In 1997, she became a partner in the firm, Phillips, Burke & Morgan. Her present practice is concentrated in the areas of commercial law, banking/finance, real estate and company secretarial.

Howard N. Malcolm, born London, England, 1955. He holds an LL.B. (Honours) degree from the University of the West Indies and a J.D. degree from the University of Miami Law School, where he was the recipient of a full academic scholarship. He was admitted to the Jamaica Bar in 1978 and the Florida Bar in 1988. During his first ten (10) years as an attorney, Mr. Malcolm was employed to the firms of Dunn, Cox & Orrett in Kingston, Jamaica and Lanza, Sevier, Womack & OıConnor in Coral Gables, Florida, where he specialised in general litigation and insurance defence litigation respectively. Between 1988 and 1994 he maintained a dual practice between the Miami, Florida office of Herman, Roof, Henry & Malcolm and the Kingston, Jamaica office of Henry & Malcolm. In 1994 he returned to Jamaica, where he resumed full-time practice as a partner in the firm of Henry & Malcolm until he joined the law firm of Phillips, Malcolm, Morgan and Matthies. He has also served as a consultant to the Government of Jamaica ("GOJ") in its establishment of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, a poverty alleviation programme funded primarily by the World Bank, the GOJ and the Inter-American Development Bank. Mr. Malcolm concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial law, domestic and international business transactions, real estate, trademark registrations, and has experience in commercial litigation.

Publications: "Towards the Emergence of an Anglo-West Indian Jurisprudence" - 18 West Indian L. J. 53 (October 1993, No. 2). Available on Word and Acrobat format.

Margaret A. Morgan, born St. Andrew, Jamaica. She holds an LL.B. (Honours) degree from the University of the West Indies and was admitted to the Jamaica Bar in 1981. She worked as an associate of John W. McFarlane in Mandeville, Manchester from 1982 to 1986 where she gained invaluable experience in civil litigation in the Resident Magistratesı Courts and in the areas of landlord and tenancy, real estate, debt collection and wills and succession. Between 1987 and 1996, she held positions as Assistant Legal Counsel for Mutual Security Bank, Legal Officer and Assistant Company Secretary to Island Life Insurance Company Limited and Legal Advisor to the Eagle Financial Group of Companies. In 1997, she became a partner in the firm, Phillips, Burke & Morgan. She specialises in the areas of wills and successions, corporate and commercial law, banking/finance, real estate transactions, loan security documentation and debt collection.

Roberta A. Matthies, born Kingston, Jamaica, 1960. She holds a B.Com. (Honours) degree from Queens University, Ontario, Canada and worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development prior to obtaining an LL.B. (Honours) degree from the University of the West Indies. Admitted to practice in 1990, she joined Myers Fletcher & Gordon, the largest law firm in Jamaica and the Commonwealth Caribbean, where she gained experience in all aspects of commercial law, taxation, securities, banking, real estate, trusts, wills, probate applications, estate and tax planning. She has particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions (having assisted in the merger of several Jamaican banks and financial entities); receiverships and liquidations; sale and financing of real estate holdings and developments; franchise and licensing agreements. She has also served as Company Secretary to several private Jamaican companies.

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