Life After Law – Roger Barron
After studying law at Oxford, where I was also a choral scholar, I joined Linklaters. As a trainee, I did…
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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 – Penny Angell
In my second year studying law at university, I fell in love twice. Not only did I meet my future…
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…
The Client Profile: Gurdeep Boparai, Coventry Building Society
From the age of 10 I knew that I wanted to be a lawyer. The first lawyer I ever met…
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…
The Client Profile: Christian Keim, Adobe
What inspired you to pursue a career in law, and how did you develop an interest in becoming an in-house…
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,…
Firm profile: Villaraza & Angangco
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The Client Profile: Nigel Paterson, Currys
‘I’m an extrovert and I like to get out there. An in-house role is much more team orientated than private…
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…
Infrastructure profile: Sara Pickersgill – ‘Pick something you love doing and do it only for as long as you love it’
Kirkland & Ellis’ Sara Pickersgill on switching track from opera singer to infrastructure lawyer and why The Lion, the Witch…
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…
The Client Profile: Lida Khanverdi, EG Group
Fresh off a train from Blackburn, suitcase in tow, Lida Khanverdi arrives at the interview shortly after closing a new…
The Client Profile: Alessandro Galtieri, Colt Technology Services
It is fair to say that Colt Technology Services does not look out of place in its trendy environs of…
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…
The Client Profile: Aleksandra Schellenberg, UBS
Aleksandra Schellenberg, UBS’ global head of legal sustainable finance, knew she wanted to be a lawyer from the age of…
The Client Profile: Terra Potter, Hexcel Corporation
Terra Potter (whose middle name is Cotta – LB has seen the proof) proudly proclaims on LinkedIn that she originally…
The Client Profile: Jelena Madir, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Jelena Madir’s career to date has been defined by two crises. The 2008 financial crash saw her out of a…