Thank you to Ella Leonard, Partner of law firm Fladgate and Council Member of the College for hosting our legal careers event at their offices in Holborn, London recently. Thank you also to Duncan Lidgitt, General Counsel at Muzinich & Co, Tamsin Davies, Associate at Morrison & Foerster and Simon Orton, Partner of Freshfields for sharing their career experiences in each of their very unique disciplines of law.  
 
Pre-discussion drinks was followed by a rich and varied presentation from each of the panelists and as a collective about their routes into the profession, the options and choices they had and the elements of the work they most enjoyed and were drawn to. Very little was left unexplored. Topics ranged from the differences between in-house and advisory, the variety of legal disciplines from litigation to real estate, big tech to charity, compensation to work/life balance and much more besides.
 
Questions were posed by the broad range of under and post-graduate and fellow lawyer OCs that had come along to enjoy the drinks, nibbles, views across London and of the panelists themselves. More drinks ensued with ever more lively conversation until ultimately, we were all encouraged to leave to allow the rooms to be prepared for the next day’s events.
 
I am particularly thankful to Tamsin who saw the immense value of such an initiative and volunteered to support the Legal Chapter over the next period. Watch this space for more information, updates and events. Thank you also to those that attended and made it the interactive event that it became and for the ideas for subsequent chapters and career activities.