My legal life – Page 26
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ProfileMy legal life: Simon Bradbury
Patent attorney and head of life sciences, Appleyard Lees, Manchester.
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ProfileMy legal life: Huw Williams
I was fortunate to attend a Welsh grammar school which encouraged pupils to aspire to higher education and the professions. I found the constitutional aspects of studying history particularly interesting so this, coupled with the fact maths wasn’t one of my stronger subjects and that I don’t like the sight ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Chris Godfrey
I used to watch Crown Court on television and loved the theatricality of the bar. I thought that was where I was heading.
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ProfileMy legal life: Jasvinder Nakhwal
The idea of becoming a lawyer was first planted in my head by my parents who, typically for many of their generation, stressed the importance of education and entering a profession. I read law at Oxford and the degree was in jurisprudence. It was not a vocational course. It was ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Jane Keir
I didn’t have a strong urge to follow any of the subjects I did at A-level – French, history and politics. I knew I didn’t want to be a teacher or a linguist. My careers adviser said law had a broad basis. I was articled with Henmans in Oxford. They ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Mark Stephens CBE
I was tricked into a legal career through a conspiracy between my father (an artist) and our lodger (in the music business) who thought I should have ‘a proper job’. I wasn’t so terribly disappointed to have been hoodwinked into the law. I feel its my natural métier. I was ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Sherina Petit
My grandfather was a solicitor, and my dad still is a solicitor, in Mumbai. During the school summer holidays, a great day out was to sit with my dad in the office. I have always wanted to be a lawyer and I started work as a trainee with dad, who ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Richard Charlton
I chaired a tenants association in Stepney, east London, and at the time the government was trying to take our homes away from us by force under the Housing Act 1988. By intensive lobbying and campaigning we defeated them in the House of Lords and the law changed. That was ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Shami Chakrabarti
When I was about 12 I had a conversation with my father – a debate about whether the Yorkshire Ripper ought to be hanged or not. That was the trigger for my interest in civil liberties and human rights. A legal education is a wonderful preparation for a career in ...
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ProfileMy legal life: Monique Fauchon
Law runs in the blood – my parents were lawyers, as was my grandfather. My legal training was simply being immersed in court work and learning on the job. There’s no better preparation. I love the law’s ability to solve an apparently intractable problem for a client. One time we ...
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NewsMy legal life: Sarah Webb
My uncle, a Swansea solicitor, gave me my first job in the law as his secretary. I did law as a non-graduate with long articles, starting off doing criminal work in Shepherds Bush.