Life as a trainee solicitor on secondment at the British Athletes’ Commission: a fascinating but challenging first month

Well, this amazing opportunity all came about quite suddenly. One day I was a trainee in the employment team at Penningtons Manches Cooper, then the next, after a couple of calls from Helen Lewis, head of early careers recruitment and Andrew Haywood, an employment partner in the London office, who mysteriously asked ‘Do you like sport?’, I became the in-house legal support at the British Athletes’ Commission!


Read about the experience of trainee solicitor Mary-Clare Palmer on the Pennington Manches Cooper website:

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