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MEET OUR PEOPLE
TRAINEE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE LAURA TYLER
STUDIED FRENCH AND SPANISH
YOU CAN PICK UP ON SOMETHING YOU WANT TO LEARN AND REALLY GO AFTER IT to ask lots of questions because people don’t expect you to knoweverything on your first day. I can’t express howmuch support you get; the constant collaboration makes everything somuch easier – you can pick up on something youwant to learn and really go after it. I’mgoing to spendmyfinal seatworking in our Singapore office before I hopefully qualify into corporate. I’m really excited about experiencing life in Singapore and about working in one of the firm’s overseas offices. I wish I’d known not to be scared. I was very nervous when I started, but it’s natural
I did languages at university and I initially thought I might want to go into PR or marketing. But then I spent a year working in themarketing teamat a lawfirm in Paris and thought, why domarketingwhen I could beworking on the deals?My parents are lawyers, so I guess it runs in the family. Because I did languages everyone said I’d be reallywell suited to international arbitration, but I’ve actually enjoyed the transactional workmore since I got here. There are always things going on that I want to get involved in. I was interested in an event being held at the firmas part of the workwe do for theGovernment of Sierra Leone, so I volunteered to help organise and threwmyself into it. I dealt with the logistics and programming, andwas one of the only trainees there on the day. It wasmy first networking event and I got some great feedback onmy contribution. Onmy disputes seat I spent sixmonths preparing for a trial, working on every step of the process. In the last week, the company on the other sidewent into liquidation and suddenly it was all hands on deck to settlewith the liquidator. It was very exciting – the end of this huge case I’d been working onwas suddenly in sight, with the best result for our client in the offing. It was a great way to finish off in that seat.
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