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My career story: “I moved from a tiny regional firm to a big City one”
- 21 Mar 2016
John Young is a legal director at Mishcon de Reya. His early career was spent at a number of small firms before he eventually joined Mishcon in 2006.
My career story: “I became a company’s first-ever GC”
- 14 Mar 2016
Banking and finance lawyer Corinna Mitchell joined asset management group Pemberton Asset Management in 2015 as its first general counsel after a whirlwind six month secondment.
My career story: “I worked at Freshfields for 33 years – now I’m a career coach”
- 29 Feb 2016
Tony Besse is a business coach and director of the graduate job preparation business Interview Advantage. He was previously a lawyer at Freshfields for 33 years, including 22 as a partner.
My career story: “We quit the magic circle to found our own tech start-up”
- 22 Feb 2016
Michael Hagai and Alex Isaacs trained and practised at magic circle firms but left to set up LexStep.com, a tech start-up that seeks to “put an end to annoying cold-calls from middlemen recruitment agencies offering irrelevant positions” by allowing top-tier lawyers to transparently explore relevant career opportunities and connect with the best law firms on a single online platform.
My career story: “I won awards for my pro bono four years after qualifying as a mature student”
- 8 Feb 2016
A member of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2015, Withy King’s Rebecca Stevens made the headlines in November 2014 for putting in more than 100 hours of unpaid work on behalf of a client who was involved in a custody case against the state but did not qualify for legal aid, despite having learning difficulties. She qualified in 2010 after studying law at night school.
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My career story: I quit law to be Olswang’s head of corporate responsibility
- 1 Feb 2016
Linda Zell quit being a commercial litigation lawyer to become head of Olswang’s Corporate Responsibility (CR) team. She talked to us about how the role came about, the decision to quit being a lawyer and what being a CR head in a law firm entails…
My career story: “I left law to become a poet”
- 11 Jan 2016
Mona Arshi is a prize-winning poet and former human rights lawyer. She recently won the Forward prize for best first collection.
My career story: "I trained at a high street practice and ended up as GC at a legal recruitment company"
- 14 Dec 2015
Hays general counsel for UK and Ireland Evelyn Styles tells The Lawyer why she chose a role in-house over private practice.
My career story: Travis Perkins general counsel Deborah Grimason
- 7 Dec 2015
Travis Perkins general counsel Deborah Grimason grew up around business - though she’d be the first to admit that her father’s bakery delivery business in rural Northern Ireland was a far cry from the FTSE 100 company she now guides through legal minefields.
How to bounce back from unemployment
- 1 Dec 2015
Becoming unemployed for whatever reason has a roller-coaster of emotions attached to it.
My career story: “I left the criminal bar to become a reputation management lawyer”
- 30 Nov 2015
Natalie Sherborn left the criminal bar and is now a senior associate at defamation and reputation management firm Schillings. She tells us about how and why she made the move.
My career story: “I moved into private practice after being an in-house GC”
- 23 Nov 2015
Maclay Murray & Spens partner Jill Reid entered private practice after 25 years in-house with Chevron UK, Shell and Dana Petroleum.
My career story: “I moved into management”
- 16 Nov 2015
Travers Smith’s David Patient gives his advice for those moving into a management role.
My career story: "I nearly left law altogether"
- 9 Nov 2015
Talk Talk legal director Nadia Hoosen nearly left the profession entirely at 5 PQE but her move in-house reinvigorated her appetite for law.
My career story: I went from being a litigation trainee at a small Scottish firm to head of Islamic finance at the world’s biggest firm
- 2 Nov 2015
Dentons’ Qasim Aslam tells The Lawyer about how he climbed the career ladder.
Angus McBride: defending champion
- 30 Oct 2015
“We are all flawed”, replies Angus McBride when asked whether he passes moral judgement on his clients.
My career story: "I left law to be a banker... then came back"
- 18 Oct 2015
Westfield GC Leon Shelley talks about his worst ever career decision, his time as a banker, and how he was offered his current job in the back of a cab…
My career story: "I set up a consultancy and launched my own start-up company"
- 11 Oct 2015
Albert Marshall trained at the bar and was an in-house lawyer at PlayStation. In 2012 he set up his own business affairs consultancy and he is also commercial director of QuizTix, which creates games for mobile phones.
My career story: “I moved from an accountancy role in London to be CEO of a Lincolnshire law firm”
- 4 Oct 2015
Wilkin Chapman chief executive Des Mannion gives his perpective of moving from accountancy to law.
