The Lawyer
Name: Spencer Davis Organisation: Lifezone Metals Role: Group General Counsel Based: London Trained at: Lewis Silkin Year qualified: 2002 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? There are so many. Playing cricket in a square behind Fleet Street, running down to the RCJ to pay fees, microfiches and bundling at all hours, learning […]
Name: Sarah Rafi Organisation: Ardonagh Advisory Role: Deputy General Counsel Based: London Trained at: Ashurst Year qualified: 2010 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Strangely, after so many years, quite a lot of my training contract remains incredibly vivid – probably because it was a time of so many new experiences and […]
Name: Kajetan Wandowicz Organisation: 4 Pump Court Role: Barrister Location: London Trained at: 4 Pump Court Year qualified: 2018 What’s your most vivid memory from being a pupil? Being invited to join my chambers. It was a sunny morning in late June, still some three months away from the completion of pupillage, and my co-pupil […]
Name: Ranjit Dhindsa Organisation: Fieldfisher Role: Head of employment, pensions, immigration and compliance practice Based: Birmingham Trained at: Warren & Allen Year Qualified: 1994 What is your most vivid memory from being a trainee pupil? Leaving a bag containing client documents on a train by accident. This was before the days when such a mistake […]
Name: Geraint Davies Organisation: Howes Percival Role: Chairman Based: Leicester Trained at: Mackrell Turner Garrett, London Year Qualified: 1991 What is your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I’ll never forget an incident at one of my first trials while I was a trainee. My client, who was bringing a personal injury claim, was […]
Name: Stella Wong Organisation: Hogan Lovells Role: Partner, patent litigation Based: London Trained at: Hogan Lovells Year qualified: 2007 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Someone more senior than me came into my office, looked over his shoulder and shut the door. My first thought was that I must be in big […]
There’s a popular saying in the cultural zeitgeist that not all heroes wear capes. There’s an addendum that should be added to that within the confines of the legal industry that not all heroes are qualified solicitors, Partners or industry leaders- in fact, arguably the largest contingent of unsung heroes are paralegals. Paralegals often form […]
Name: David Hunter Organisation: Bates Wells Role: Senior counsel Based: London Trained at: Freshfields Year qualified: 1994 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Taking my mum into Freshfields’ offices (on Fleet St) one weekend to show her where I worked and that her years standing on Preston market selling greetings cards […]
Name: Mei Lian Organisation: Paul Hastings Role: Partner, co-chair of London office Based: London Trained at: Linklaters Year qualified: 2000 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Being called “the most stupid trainee from the London office”. It really taught me a lot about resilience, and also, looking back, I learnt that it’s […]
Name: Derek Tong Organisation: Linklaters Role: Partner Based: London Trained at: Linklaters Year qualified: 2009 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? In September 2008, I joined the Linklaters derivatives and structured products team as a third seat trainee. This was at the exact time that Lehman Brothers went into administration (in relation […]
Name: Ilan Sherr Organisation: Aiscension / DLA Piper Role: Executive Director Based: London Trained at: SJ Berwin (as it was then called) Year qualified: 2004 (when NASA landed its Spirit Rover on Mars, and the Treaty for the Constitution of Europe was signed) What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Nearly dying in […]
Name: Sally Hulston Firm: Lewis Silkin Based: Manchester Role: Partner Trained at: Eversheds Year qualified: 2003 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I have a few that are all sort of related! I started my training contract on 10 September 2001 and the world came to an abrupt halt the following day. […]