Conor Macaire Duncan

Conor is an Associate in the Construction team predominantly working on non-contentious front-end contract reviews and advisory work on industry standard form contracts across a broad range of construction and E&I projects. Having spent both his second and third training contract seat in our Construction team and then on full-time secondment to Mace Group, he has experience working in both a private practice and in-house capacity in the construction realm.

For his other seats on his training contract, Conor spent time in the Digital and Sourcing team in London, working with both public and private sector clients on a variety of complex commercial, sourcing and technology contracts, and also in our Commercial Dispute Resolution team working on a broad range of general commercial disputes across both the private and public sector. 

Prior to joining Browne Jacobson, he worked as a Litigation Paralegal in the Construction Disputes team at an international law firm before being promoted to a Knowledge Management Paralegal specialising in producing legal research, external publications and sector specific end products for clients across numerous specialisms, including insurance, cyber, data protection, AI, climate change, Covid-19 and other emerging risks. This experience has assisted Conor in writing articles for publication at Browne Jacobson.

His experience with climate-related research led to his contributing towards a University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) report named ‘Risk Sharing in the Climate Emergency’, which was deliberated on at COP26. 

Conor also has experience in drafting bespoke model clauses having led a team at The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) Insurance Hackathon to draft a model clause named Nemo's Clause. Nemo’s Clause encompasses a set of clauses that can be embedded into a parametric insurance policy, in turn incentivising insured parties to facilitate the rapid restoration of coral reefs after catastrophic weather events. Nemo's Clause was later reviewed in depth and published by TCLP to coincide with COP26.