Hilary Reid was admitted to practice at the Jamaican bar in 1997 and to the Eastern Caribbean Bar in 2002. She has worked with Myers, Fletcher & Gordon since her admission to practice and has been a partner there since 2003.
She has served as a law tutor at the University of Technology and was also a law instructor in Constitutional Law with the University of the West Indies’ extension programme in the British Virgin Islands. She has been a tutor in the Law of Association at the Norman Manley Law School since 2009.
Miss Reid is Chairman of the Jamaican Bar Association’s Commercial Law Committee and has also actively participated as a member of that committee’s sub-group reviewing the Companies Act. She has also served as Secretary and Convenor of its Intellectual Property Law Committee.
Miss Reid is a member of the committee coordinated by the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica which is assessing, with a view to recommending, changes to the current insolvency regime in Jamaica and is a member of the Legislation Committee of the board of Jamaica’s International Financial Services Centre Authority examining and proposing drafting instructions for the suite of legislation needed to promote and develop Jamaica as a centre for international financial services.