‘Debunk assumptions by doing surprising things’ – Paul Weiss’s Nicole Kar on succeeding in City law
Ahead of International Women’s Day, Nicole Kar, global co-chair of antitrust at Paul Weiss, discusses thriving in the deep end…
Life during law
Life During Law – Simon Levine
I didn’t grow up with law in my life. I come from a non-professional background and my parents didn’t go…
Life During Law: former A&O chief Wim Dejonghe
Former Allen & Overy senior partner Wim Dejonghe was named Management Partner of the Year at the Legal Business Awards…
Life During Law: Freshfields’ London head Mark Sansom
I nearly drowned in a river in Wales when I was four. It had been raining a lot and the…
Life During Law: Nick Scott
I’m the only one in my immediate family who isn’t a scientist – they’re all biologists and engineers. My grandfather,…
Life During Law: Scott Hopkins
When I was 18 I left Vancouver to play ice hockey in university in Japan. That got me off on…
A&O’s Wim Dejonghe on mergers, money and his plans for life after law
I wanted to go into sports. I was a sailing instructor, close to professional. But then I had knee issues,…
Life During Law: Richard Lever
The Godfather is a great film. Tom Hagen was a bit of an inspiration. There’s that scene where he turns…
Life During Law: Natasha Luther-Jones
When I was 12, I was a competitive swimmer, and I used to swim every morning before school. If you’re…
Life During Law: Sandra Paul
I head up our criminal defence and police investigations team as well as our sexual misconduct in the workplace practice.…
Life During Law: Georgia Dawson
I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be when I was growing up. I went through periods of thinking maybe…
Life During Law: Jeroen Ouwehand
I never thought I would be a lawyer. I’m from Amsterdam, and I did a student traineeship in 1991, which…
Life During Law: Paul Dolman
I certainly didn’t have a burning desire to be a lawyer from the age of five years old. I definitely…
Life During Law: Nick Vamos
Did I always want to be a lawyer? No. I didn’t think I wanted to sit behind a desk, so…
Life During Law: Karen Seward
I grew up in a shipbuilding town in the north. Barrow-in-Furness. Bill Bryson described it as ‘the very worst town…
Life During Law: Robbie McLaren
University in my family was always something vocational. I hated science, so that was doctor and vet out the way.…
Life during law: Peter Crossley, Squire Patton Boggs
I started life in South Africa mainly doing crime and divorce. Knowing something about criminal law, and the cut and…