Two Appleby associates celebrated their calls to the Bermuda Bar on Friday.

Jamie Rego, 30, is a Bermudian working with the firm's Litigation and Insolvency team.

Mr. Rego was educated at the Bermuda Institute, Saltus Grammar School and Mount Allison University in Canada before completing the University of Kent law programme in England.

During his time as a law student, he was vice president of the Law Students' Association of Bermuda from 2006 to 2007.

Mr. Rego, from Southampton, then completed his legal practice course at the College of Law in Guildford, England, before doing his pupillage at Appleby.

He explained after his call to the Bar ceremony: "My reason for doing law was motivated by a need to help others understand their legal rights as well take an active role in promoting Bermuda's success as a top insurance and reinsurance market. I decided to do law because it is a career that will provide me with a dynamic and exciting environment to challenge me intellectually.

"I look forward to a long and fruitful career as a Bermudian lawyer."

Also called to the Bar was Jason Green, who is originally from London.

Mr. Green is an associate in Appleby's Banking and Asset Finance Team, having joined the firm as a pupil in August 2009.

Before that, he spent ten years in the international wealth management industry.

Mr. Green has worked in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Guernsey with the private client and trust divisions of the Bank of Bermuda and Butterfield Bank and in London as an international relationship manager with Barclays Wealth, a division of Barclays Bank PLC.

He is a member of the Bermuda branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and currently completing the dissertation stage of an MBA programme with Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

Mr. Green holds the certificate for financial advisers (CeFA) and read law at the University of Westminster, before completing the legal practice course at the College of Law in London.

He is married, with a seven-year-old son.