Clare Algar, Executive Director
Clare Algar is Reprieve’s Executive Director, and focuses on the executive and management aspects of Reprieve’s work as well as certain litigation. Clare read law at Cambridge University (Gonville & Caius College) and has an MA and an LLM (St Mary’s College, London) in law. She spent 9 months after university with the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. There she gathered evidence in support of a suit against the State of Mississippi, requiring it to provide legal representation for those on its death row. Clare then trained as a lawyer in England and qualified in 2000. She worked as a litigator in a commercial law firm for 8 years. She was made partner in 2004 at the age of 28 and has led significant pieces of civil litigation in that capacity. Clare undertakes co-ordination of European civil litigation at Reprieve and uses her significant commercial law experience in liaising with key partners to garner pro bono assistance.
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