Life After Law – Roger Barron Anna Huntley After studying law at Oxford, where I was also a choral scholar, I joined Linklaters. As a trainee, I did…
Life During Law – Simon Levine Anna Huntley 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 Elisha Juttla 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 Georgina Stanley 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 Elisha Juttla 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 Alex Ryan 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 Anna Huntley 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 Alex Ryan I wanted to go into sports. I was a sailing instructor, close to professional. But then I had knee issues,…
Firm profile: Villaraza & Angangco Guest Blog V&A LAW CENTER, 11th Avenue corner 39th Street, Bonifacio Triangle, Bonifacio Global City 1634, Metro Manila, Philippines | T: +632.8988.6088…
The Client Profile: Nigel Paterson, Currys Elisha Juttla ‘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 Holly McKechnie 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’ Harry Vercoe Kirkland & Ellis’ Sara Pickersgill on switching track from opera singer to infrastructure lawyer and why The Lion, the Witch…
The Client Profile: Lida Khanverdi, EG Group Holly McKechnie Fresh off a train from Blackburn, suitcase in tow, Lida Khanverdi arrives at the interview shortly after closing a new…
Life During Law: Natasha Luther-Jones Nathalie Tidman When I was 12, I was a competitive swimmer, and I used to swim every morning before school. If you’re…
The Client Profile: Alessandro Galtieri, Colt Technology Services Holly McKechnie 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 Ayesha Ellis 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 Holly McKechnie 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 Ayesha Ellis 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 Nathalie Tidman 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 Charles Avery Jelena Madir’s career to date has been defined by two crises. The 2008 financial crash saw her out of a…
