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I came to law late, as a result of getting involved in trade union politics in the book publishing firm I worked for: The firm was taken over, and major [...]

When I was a mod in Chelmsford the nearest I got to the legal system was supporting my mates in the local magistrates court. They were there for all the [...]

I was born in 1965 and given to Barnardos in my early months as my birth mother couldn't keep me. She was a mixed-race "war baby" who grew up herself [...]

I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer, it was not usual in my family to go to University, we come from a rural village on the west coast [...]

The female lawyers in Pakistan were a highly fragmented and marginalized class. The challenges they faced were common but there was a missing link- they were not united, they were [...]

I am writing in response to what I read in the Inner Temple Year Book. For myself, with no lawyers in the family, at about 7 or 8 years old, [...]

I qualified as a solicitor in 1991 but before then, I had been the first person in my extended family to go to university. My grandparents were immigrants who had [...]

I studied Law accidentally, after going to University to read English, I was so determined not to be a teacher like my mother that I chose law instead. I was [...]

I have been privileged to work as a sports lawyer - mostly in football, other sports too - for 17 years. There are things I can point to where I [...]

This is a response to a prompt I received from your Twitter account. My mother left school in Leeds at 16, and married my father, who lectured in law at [...]

As many relatives that have joined the legal profession have all been male. It is quite easy to have the built a idea of this being the only boys club [...]

As a woman called to the Bar in the late 1990's I was surprised to find a female pupil-master whose approach to pupillage was to make it (in her own [...]

I became a solicitor because by great aunt was one of the early female solicitors, having worked her way up from an articled clerk. I now work in house, and [...]

A female teacher laughed at me when I told her I wanted to be a lawyer. She told me to consider other options, something less academic. As a young insecure [...]

I come from a mining community in Scotland. My parents and Grandparents were very involved in the NUM, and my father, in particular was very driven by the need to [...]

When in 1966 I became head of my Chambers, I resolved to make it entirely non-discriminatory. Indeed my Chambers was known scornfully as the "United Nations". But we had no [...]

I was first generation, not only in a profession; my parents left school at 13 and 14 respectively for financial reasons. I went to a direct grant grammar school and [...]

I am lucky enough to be half way through a training contract at the age of 24 with 3 years of experience behind me already. I am also a woman [...]

I am lucky enough to be halfway through a training contract at the age of 24 with 3 years of experience behind me already. I am also a woman and [...]

One day, my firm decided to recognise the role and impact of women in law by amending documents to begin with "Dear Sirs/Madams". Before that day, everything was addressed only [...]

I came from a very rough public school. By the time I left school I had been exploited, raped, and abused. It is astonishing how I even managed to finish [...]

As a student in a secondary modern when 15 I was told the law wasn't for me. I did an arts degree but never knew what to do with it. [...]