The Davis Polk & Wardwell City partner on hard work, skinny jeans and Slaughters’ pencil and biscuit offering

Why did you become a lawyer?
I chose to study European law at Warwick University partly because I wanted to perfect my French and wasn’t cool enough to be an arts student. I loved company law and the related commercial subjects I studied, so pursuing a career in an international commercial law firm seemed like the right way forward.