Profile – Page 10
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Hostile environment
‘This is not Dominic Grieve and Ken Clarke we’re dealing with.’ Shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti talks to Eduardo Reyes about her priorities in opposition, which include enhancing the rights of rape complainants and defending human rights from executive attack
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News and the noose
‘Idealist’ Tamsin Allen acquired a taste for fighting miscarriages of justice by taking up one of the biggest causes célèbre of the post-war era. Now she has the pedlars of ‘fake news and lies’ in her sights, reports Jonathan Rayner.
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Make me a match
Why send legal work to outsourcing centres in India, when top lawyers here sit idle? Dana Denis-Smith talks to Eduardo Reyes about women in the law and her thriving 1,700-lawyer legal support business
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Scoring centuries
Sarah Henwood talks to Eduardo Reyes about running the world’s oldest law firm.
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At the double
A news report and a clandestine coffee in Berlin created a transatlantic firm with a billion-dollar turnover, led by two women co-chairs. Eduardo Reyes talks to Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Therese Pritchard and Lisa Mayhew
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Born fighter
Securing accountability for violence against women and girls drives campaigning lawyer Harriet Wistrich, hears Melanie Newman
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Lawyer in the news: Sophie Naftalin
Solicitor in the police law department at Bhatt Murphy, London.
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Taking control
An unquenchable drive is in Janet Legrand’s DNA. This catapulted the Woman Lawyer of the Year 2018 to the helm of global firm DLA Piper and into the heart of international dispute resolution, writes Jonathan Rayner
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High Atlantic
Susan Bright, managing partner of Hogan Lovells in London, tells why partnerships are not like corporates and how she likes nothing better than a blank sheet of paper.
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Interview: Sandie Okoro
How can a lawyer help end world poverty and spread the benefits of economic growth? It starts with remembering to make your bed, World Bank general counsel Sandie Okoro tells Eduardo Reyes.
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Interview: Linda Woolley
Kingsley Napley’s ‘non-posh’ managing partner doesn’t rate people by rank. Perhaps that’s why it’s judged a great place to work.