Gill Phillips is the Director of Editorial Legal Services for Guardian News & Media Limited (publishers of The Guardian, The Observer and theguardian.com), advising on matters like defamation, privacy, data protection, contempt of court and reporting restrictions. She is a qualified solicitor. She has worked as an in-house lawyer for the BBC, News Group Newspapers and Times Newspapers Limited. She has been with GNM since 2009. She has advised it on major issues and stories including phone-hacking, Wikileaks, the Leveson Inquiry, the NSA leaks from Edward Snowden, and more recently on the Panama and Paradise Papers and Luganda Leaks.