Profiles – Page 62
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ProfileLucy Scott-Moncrieff
The outgoing president of the Law Society talks about the key challenges of her tenure.
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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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ProfileLisa Cameron
Ernst & Young’s UK general counsel Lisa Cameron talks about ‘the best legal role in London’.
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ProfileChris Grayling
Speaking to the Gazette, Chris Grayling offers no empirical evidence that the public has lost confidence in the system.
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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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ProfileElisabeth Jones
As chief legal adviser to the Welsh assembly, Elisabeth Jones is politically neutral.
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ProfileMy legal life: Mark Hynes
Law appealed to me as a kid growing up in the 1970s with shows like Petrocelli. I graduated from Leicester University, then attended law school in Chester and undertook my articles at Wells and Hind in Nottingham. I remember my first day of articles when I was given a Dictaphone, ...
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ProfileRupert Scrase
Rupert Scrase, the chair-elect of the Sole Practitioners Group, says why he has confidence in the sector.
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ProfilePaul Bowden
Times of rapid, far-reaching change invite talk of ‘burning platforms’, ‘perfect storms’ and ‘shifting tectonic plates’.
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My legal life: Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
I never wanted to be a commercial or business lawyer, much of whose job it is to make rich people richer. My father was a doctor who worked mostly within mining communities. I felt impelled to follow in his footsteps and give service to people who needed it, but could ...
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My legal life: Mark Beer
Every summer from the age of 14 I carried the bags of Edge Ellison’s senior partner Digby (now Lord) Jones and loved everything about the idea of being a lawyer. Oxford University’s jurisprudence degree provided a wonderful introduction to the philosophy of law and the importance of questioning everything against ...
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My legal life: Ted Greeno
Although school aptitude tests pointed towards a legal career I found the study of law generally rather dry, but enjoyed business-related subjects such as contract and commercial law. At that stage, my intention was to go into business and I started a small publishing business while still a student.
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My legal life: John Spencer
I set out to specialise in economics with an ambition to teach. I studied for a BA in social sciences covering economics, law, social policy, sociology, and maths and statistics. In year two I focused on economics and law, but law came more naturally.