It's easy to think that everyone who works in the City,
and particularly in law firms, is upper middle class and maybe got
to where they are because of who they know or where they went to
school. For those of us who come from a different background, we
understand, and can often be conscious of the fact, that that
isn't our reality. That said, unless I told you where I grew
up and what my background was, you wouldn't know that the
world of law was alien to me when I first started out.
While I had been interested in a career in law for a long time,
I never really had any insight into how to forge a career in the
legal profession, never mind at a firm like Akin Gump. I
didn't have family or friends who were lawyers, and I
didn't really have access to people who could give me more
information. I felt, at times, others were more clued up about how
to break into the profession than I was. It's because I
understand what that's like, that I'm really pleased
that Akin Gump
