Susan trained and practised in the banking department at Hogan Lovells International LLP. She’s passionate about creating opportunities for talented graduates, whatever their background. She has 10 years management experience during which she also completed an Executive MBA with distinction from Cass Business School. Susan looks after all the day to day tasks involved with running a business and also leads the assessment centres.
Meera is a UK city qualified lawyer with over 20 years’ experience and supports all aspects of operational delivery at Accutrainee.
She is passionate about talent and has a ‘People First’ approach to training legal professionals to equip them with the right skills to work in private practice and in-house. She also sits as an advisory board member for universities and organisations to support employee engagement and uses her position to champion initiatives which promote change, diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Andrea is a human resources professional who obtained his MSc from Brunel University in 2016. He also has an academic background in Philosophy. He is passionate about recruitment and learning and development. As part of the HR team, Andrea is responsible for managing the employee lifecycle and the selection process, dealing with queries from candidates and Accutrainees and maintaining our HR processes.
Nikiesha is a human resources professional who has an academic background in Philosophy having graduated in 2020. Nikiesha is passionate about employee wellbeing. As part of the HR team, Nikiesha is responsible for dealing with HR and administrative queries from our trainees and maintaining our HR processes.
Rachel started her career in the City more than 20 years ago after graduating in Languages. She has many years’ experience dealing with lawyers and major law firms and is currently studying for a post-graduate qualification in linguistics. As part of the HR team, Rachel is now delighted to be helping lawyers start their legal career maintaining our HR processes.
Alessandra graduated from an MSc in HR Management from King’s College London in 2022, after completing her BSc in Psychology. She joined Accutrainee to kickstart her career in the people function, drawn by the opportunity to help individuals navigate a complex industry and pursue their desired career path. Her role as Recruitment Coordinator involves supporting candidates with their application, matching them with the most suitable placement opportunities, and ensuring these processes run smoothly by maintaining databases up-to-date.
Elizabeth has always been interested in developing talent. During her 20 years as a corporate lawyer at Slaughter and May, she was heavily involved in recruitment and development, especially of trainees, and is delighted to be continuing this through her work with Accutrainee. She does this alongside a portfolio of listed and unlisted non-executive roles, while also continuing to develop the careers of practising and retired lawyers through BCKR.
At the heart of the Accutrainee process lies the relationship between trainees and their mentors. Trainees receive continuous support and guidance throughout their time with us, providing a channel for voicing any concerns or queries in an environment entirely separate from the workplace.
Kathryn spent 26 years at Slaughter and May as a corporate and commercial lawyer, 17 of them as a partner. During her legal career she advised clients from a variety of sectors across a wide range of practice areas ranging from public and private M&A, commercial contracts, debt financing, equity and debt capital markets, regulatory enquiries, insolvency situations and general corporate advice. As a partner Kathryn was also heavily involved in trainee recruitment and the entire trainee lifecycle responsible for co-ordination of the supervision of the 10-12 trainees who rotated through the group every six month. She also directly supervised over 30 trainees herself during her career, many of whom she remains in touch with. We are therefore very fortunate to have Kathryn mentor some of our trainees. During her career, amongst many other things Kathryn also delivered considerable trainee and newly qualified lawyer training.
Gary trained at Linklaters and moved to Kirkland & Ellis on qualification, where he worked on fund formation and financial services regulation. He later moved to the financial services regulatory team at Herbert Smith Freehills, where his focus shifted more to contentious matters, and subsequently back to Linklaters. Gary then went in-house at Santander UK plc, where he set up and managed the contentious regulatory team at the bank. He also developed, implemented and managed Santander UK’s training contract programme, which gave him a wealth of exposure and experience in developing young talent. Gary now works as a legal consultant, and is one of our trainee mentors.
Anne Marie trained and qualified in the Regulatory Department at Capsticks Solicitors LLP and has over fifteen years’ experience in acting for healthcare regulators and the NHS. Anne Marie considers being given the opportunity to supervise and mentor trainee solicitors to help and support their professional development as one of the highlights of her career and she is delighted to be continuing this favoured aspect of her work with Accutrainee.
Kathy spent 23 years at Slaughter and May, the last 15 of those as a partner in a corporate group. During that time she was involved in the recruitment of trainees. Since retiring from practice Kathy has taught on the LPC Accelerated course at BPP University – teaching BLP PCR, 18A, Equity Finance and Corporate Transactions. Kathryn is one of our trainee mentors.
Accutrainee is very fortunate to benefit from an impressive group of highly experienced and respected individuals with expertise in many different areas and from many different industries.
Henry has held senior roles in investment banks, law firms and commercial enterprises. He was an investment banker for a number of years, including a director at BZW, before returning to the law as a partner at Herbert Smith in 1998 acted for a large number of financial institutions and overseeing the opening of a number of international offices as well as being responsible for the relationship with Herbert Smith’s European Alliance firms. Throughout his career Henry has been heavily involved in recruiting both at junior and partner level.
Professor Peter Giblin specialises in working with senior level decision makers to support them as they grow their businesses by identifying, attracting, managing, developing and evaluating talented personnel. He has a background in international law, merchant banking, and senior level executive search. Peter is a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Management at Cass Business School in London where he is a founding member of the Centre for Research in Corporate Governance.
Amber is a Learning and Development specialist with over 20 years’ experience of designing, developing and delivering training solutions across global, multi-disciplinary, complex organisations. She has held principal training and development roles in several organisations including top ten international law firms. Amber was a member of the former Joint Academic Stage Board for the SRA and the Bar Standards Board and is a Fellow of the Institute of Continuing Professional Development.
Anand is a partner at Boutique Law LLP and is highly respected as a specialist in business crime and extradition. As a former training principal to Accutrainee, Anand is very familiar with market challenges relating to qualification and has always been particularly interested in the development and training of our future lawyers, their routes to qualification and career progression.
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