Name: Deborah Robinson Firm: SOAS University of London Role: Director of Legal and Governance Trained at: Macfarlanes Year qualified: 1990 Read her Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Negotiating to get urgent documents higher on the word processing pool’s list! On a less mundane note, working alongside the lead […]
Work hard, be ambitious, but never forget your family and friends
Name: Shantha David Firm: UNISON Legal Services Role: In-house lawyer Trained at: Called to the Bar in 2004 and cross-qualified as a solicitor Year qualified: 2005 Read her Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Running a case at the Employment Appeal Tribunal and winning it! What is the wisest […]
Name: Suzanne Liversidge Firm: Kennedys Law Role: Global managing partner Trained at: DLA Year qualified: 1993 Read her Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? The transition from student, ie. getting up so early and having to wear a suit! We had a great collegiate group of trainees so we […]
Name: Victoria Sigeti Firm: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Role: Partner Trained at: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Year qualified: 2003 Read her Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I remember sitting in my first conference with counsel, which was held in person on the Freshfields’ client floor within a few weeks of […]
Name: Ed Turner Firm: Taylor Vinters Role: Managing partner Trained at: Taylor Vinters Year qualified: 1995 Read his Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Feeling like an imposter. What is the wisest thing anyone ever said to you (and who said it)? In the leadership context: “Do less. Be […]
Name: Samantha Hutchinson Firm: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Role: Partner Trained at: Hogan Lovells Year qualified: 2001 Read her Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Walking into the office to close a project finance deal on a Monday and not leaving the office until Thursday afternoon. Clients and advisers were […]
Name: Andrew Thornton QC Firm: Erskine Chambers Role: Barrister/QC from March 2020 Trained at: Erskine Chambers and 8 Stone Buildings (now 10 Old Square) Year qualified: 1994 Read his Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a pupil? Having my pupil-masters pointing out the split-infinitives in my written work. What is the […]
In the first in our series profiling members of 2020’s Hot 100 we meet Mishcon de Reya’s Susannah Kintish.