Life During Law

Marco Cillario

I’m London born and bred, never lived anywhere else apart from three years in Manchester at university. Went to City…

Nathalie Tidman

I’m less Marmite than I was. Never been deferential. Having a Mancunian directness, I was brought up by people who…

Thomas Alan

It never occurred to me to be a lawyer until sixth form. I went to a regular comprehensive school and…

Nathalie Tidman

I didn’t plan a career in law. At school I did those career survey things twice and on both occasions…

Marco Cillario

My mother is Irish and my father English. They were first-generation immigrants. I was born a year after my mother’s…

Nathalie Tidman

I’ve been 27 years at Freshfields. I’m not sure where the time has gone. It’s International Women’s Day on Friday…

Marco Cillario

My mother was always convinced I was going to be a barrister. She used to watch TV dramas involving barristers.…

Hamish McNicol

My dad was born in Kashmir and was in the Pakistani Air Force, posted to Turkey. India and Pakistan were…

Nathalie Tidman

I was probably the world’s worst children’s entertainer. I needed a Saturday job to earn money but played football on…

Tom Baker

My father is Greek, my mother was English. There’s been no law in the family, much more of a trading…

Nathalie Tidman

My dad is a Marxist. Imagine how he felt when I became a City solicitor and married a banker. He…

Tom Baker

Never wanted to be a lawyer. I was persuaded to read law at Oxford by my school. I wanted to…

Marco Cillario

I grew up in North West London. My parents came from working-class, Irish Catholic backgrounds from Liverpool. Nobody had been…

Marco Cillario

When I moved to Hull from Sheffield at five my next-door neighbour was a just-born, [Linklaters partner] Alex Woodward –…

Marco Cillario

My family moved from London to Essex in the seventies, we bought a big house with a big garden and…

Nathalie Tidman

My father was in the Ministry of Defence. There was a naval base in Singapore. Our family moved there when…

Kathryn McCann

I grew up outside London and left school at 16 to start a mechanical engineering apprenticeship. I didn’t have A-levels…

Madeleine Farman

I started at Paisner and then on qualification went off to Norton Rose. I joined Clifford Chance in 2000, which…

Kathryn McCann

I come from a big family. The only male. I have four sisters and was exposed to the talent and…

Georgiana Tudor

When I was 11-years old a teacher asked us to write down what we were going to do when we…