Herbert Smith’s corporate veteran on duff DIY skills and why ECM deals still get the heart pumping
Why did you become a lawyer? I took a circuitous path to law school, after a detour studying engineering at Berkeley. While in the PhD programme I realised that, A, I was competing with others who were more passionate about the subject and, B, a PhD in electrical engineering and work in the private sector afterwards require a great deal of manual skills and I’ve never been particularly good at DIY. My father and both grandfathers all studied law, so law school was a natural (though belated) choice. I haven’t looked back since!
