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A day in the life of ... Lucy Reed (Barrister and Mediator)

Date:2 NOV 2015
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Barrister and Mediator
This article was written in support of National Pro Bono Week running from 2–6 November 2015.

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What is your position and what you do on a day-to-day basis?

I’m a family barrister specialising in children work. I also run the  Pink Tape blog and am the chair of the Transparency Project.

How long have you been in this role and what brought you here?

I’ve been at the bar for 13years now although I had never thought of being a lawyer until I was in my twenties. I found myself as President of the Students’ Union at Birkbeck (Uni of London) where I gained a reputation for advocating pretty relentlessly on behalf of individual students and the student body. I took myself dead seriously and people kept telling me I should...

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