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A day in the life of ... Elizabeth Hicks
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Elizabeth specialises in all areas of family law. She has particular expertise in divorce and contested financial remedy cases involving an international aspect.
What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?
I am a partner and head of the Family Asset Protection Team at BCLP [
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner] in London. The role is brand new in London. The last week has been busy with IT and other training meeting essential people within the firm and getting to know the systems. Moving forward my days will involve a mixture of carrying out the client work myself in both financial remedy and private law children cases negotiating Pre-nups supervising the team networking and dealing with any management issues which arise. It's a far cry from the time I have had off on gardening leave where my days were filled with looking after my four chickens and three ducks going for long walks with my dog doing some volunteering at an old people's home baking and finally making jam! Oh yes and also travelling quite a lot!
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