The Lawyer Podcast: Horizon, not live

The Lawyer’s Horizon Live is due to kick off next month with a series of webinars, dinners and roundtables featuring some of the biggest names in law discussing the most prominent issues affecting the profession.

To celebrate, on the new episode of The Lawyer Podcast, four of The Lawyer’s editors present some of their favourite Horizons from the last few weeks.

Editor Catrin Griffiths presents Horizon editor Katy Dowell’s piece Just let more women in the equity, Richard Simmons brings us his words on Oxford is the New Cambridge, deputy news editor Jessica Boak argues that firms need to re-evaluate client relationships in Don’t backtrack like Sunak, and international editor Alex Taylor argues why Freshfields is still a staunch Europhile.

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