Yvette Ostolaza is Sidley’s management committee chair – a role she has held since 2022 – and a commercial litigator. Here, she discusses her thwarted journalism ambitions, rising through the ranks to leadership roles, and why she thinks external investment in law will catch on
I remember the first time I discovered that women could be lawyers. In middle school I read a book called Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon, and the heroine was a lawyer. I’d never thought of a woman being a lawyer; I’d never seen one on TV or met a female lawyer. I didn’t realise it at the time, but that book planted a seed in my mind.
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