Life during law: Leona Ahmed Hamish McNicol My dad was born in Kashmir and was in the Pakistani Air Force, posted to Turkey. India and Pakistan were…
Client profile: Matt Wilson, Uber Hamish McNicol ‘I wrote my own resignation letter twice in the first six months,’ Matt Wilson, Uber’s associate general counsel (GC) for…
Life during law: Mike Francies Nathalie Tidman I was probably the world’s worst children’s entertainer. I needed a Saturday job to earn money but played football on…
Law firm tech: Tech trumps Legal Business Allen & Overy Most senior IT/tech professional: Andrew Brammer, IT and shared services director, reporting to managing partner Andrew Ballheimer…
Client profile: Julie Smyth, BAE Systems Air Hamish McNicol ‘My husband has virtually no understanding of what I do,’ admits BAE Systems Air chief counsel Julie Smyth. ‘He thinks…
Life during law: Simon Konsta Tom Baker My father is Greek, my mother was English. There’s been no law in the family, much more of a trading…
Life during law: Amy Mahon Nathalie Tidman My dad is a Marxist. Imagine how he felt when I became a City solicitor and married a banker. He…
Client profile: Martin Cook, Funding Circle Hamish McNicol The London office of peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle is exactly what you would expect from one of the UK’s largest…
Life during law: Richard Crump Tom Baker Never wanted to be a lawyer. I was persuaded to read law at Oxford by my school. I wanted to…
Client profile: Richard Price, Anglo American Hamish McNicol Shortly before Richard Price went in-house as group general counsel (GC) and company secretary at Anglo American, the legal team’s…
Client profile: Daniel Toner, Spire Healthcare Tom Baker Daniel Toner had done his research. Before an interview to become head of legal at Bupa Hospitals in 2006, he…
Life during law: Paul Maher Marco Cillario I grew up in North West London. My parents came from working-class, Irish Catholic backgrounds from Liverpool. Nobody had been…
Sponsored firm profile: RPC Guest Blog A decade ago RPC hardly featured on the radar of hard-hitting City litigation firms. It is now one of the…
Sponsored chambers profile: Wilberforce Chambers Guest Blog Q&A with Nicholas Luckman, practice director of Wilberforce Chambers 1. The Bar and chambers themselves have evolved significantly over the…
Perspectives: Stephen Parkinson, Kingsley Napley Tom Baker I didn’t intend to become a lawyer. I’m the first of my family; we’ve been teachers and priests. My brother…
Perspectives: Clive Zietman, Stewarts Tom Baker I got into law almost by default. I didn’t even like it when I started with Herbert Smith where I…
Global leaders sponsor profile: KNOETZL Guest Blog KNOETZL is a leading Austrian law firm of effective, experienced and perceptive legal minds, providing the highest quality of advocacy…
Global leaders sponsor profile: Shalakany Law Office Guest Blog Shalakany Law Office is one of the oldest and largest law firms in Egypt. Established in 1912 when Egypt was…
Global leaders sponsor profile: Mihaj, Ilic & Milanovic Guest Blog Mihaj, Ilić & Milanović (MIM Law) is a relatively new player in the Serbian market but is already ranked by…
Client profile: Sarah Nelson Smith, Yum! Brands Tom Baker In many ways it was ideal preparation. Before embarking on a legal career, Sarah Nelson Smith took a post-law school…
