Hammonds corporate veteran Nick Allen on failing to reach out to a rewarding career in criminal law
What’s the closest you have come to doing something other than law? It is more a case that I was intending to become a different sort of lawyer. All the way through college I anticipated being a criminal law advocate. I took two years off after the College of Law and when I returned to the UK I went for two interviews, one to a legal aid firm and one to a corporate firm. I accepted the offer from the latter. Once qualified I worked at the King’s Cross citizens advice bureau one night a week for a number of years until I could no longer balance it with the day job.
