Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Gold | |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start1: | 1 February 2011 Life Peerage |
Party: | Conservative |
David Laurence Gold, Baron Gold (born 1 March 1951)[1] is a British lawyer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
In March 2011 he set up David Gold & Associates high level strategic litigation advisors. He was senior litigation partner at Herbert Smith LLP, an international law firm headquartered in London.[2]
On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Gold would be created a life peer.[3] He was created Baron Gold, of Westcliff-on-Sea in the County of Essex on 1 February 2011.[1]
In January 2013 Rolls-Royce announced that it had retained the services of Lord Gold to review their global anti-corruption compliance policies following bribery allegations in China and Indonesia.[4]
In April 2015, Lord Gold became an adviser to Balance Legal Capital LLP, a leading provider of litigation finance based in London.
Escutcheon: | Gules a bend barry wavy Azure and Argent between in sinister chief scales of justice and in dexter base a menorah Or. |
Crest: | A mallard drake Proper resting its dexter foot on a bezant.[5] |
Supporters: | Dexter a lion guardant sinister a beaver guardant both Or. |