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Welcome to episode #2 of the A&O Career Insights podcast. This podcast series aims to shine a light on individuals in the firm, to explore how they navigated their careers to become more senior and successful. Our host, Danielle Viner, a training events coordinator in London, will be interviewing a different guest in each episode to help inspire people to shape their own careers, 
In this episode, Danielle meets with Christine Shedden to discuss her journey in HR, how she became a manager and some of the complex challenges she’s faced with in her role. 

Welcome to episode #1 of the A&O Career Insights podcast. This podcast series aims to shine a light on individuals in the firm, to explore how they navigated their careers to become more senior and successful. Our host, Danielle Viner, a training events coordinator in London, will be interviewing a different guest in each episode to help inspire people to shape their own careers.
In this episode, Danielle discusses what it’s like to work in recruitment with our first guest, Steven Murrell, a resourcing manager, whose career has spanned 22 years at the firm.

In this episode, our host, Bianca Vasilache, an A&O associate and former trainee, discusses A&O’s pro bono work with Aditi Kapoor, one of A&O’s pro bono managing lawyers, and Frances Beddow, a newly-qualified associate in the litigation and investigations group (Litigation, L&I) who also did a trainee secondment in the pro bono team. 

 In this episode, our host, Bianca Vasilache, an A&O associate and former trainee, discusses what it is like to work in A&O’s International Capital Markets (ICM) department with Andrew Enga, a senior associate in the debt capital markets group (ICM, General Securities Group/GSG), and Ruby Avison, a one-year qualified associate in the same group (ICM, GSG).For more information about Nivaura, the legal tech company mentioned in this episode, see Series 2 of this podcast, Episode 4 (Solicitor Diaries: Life In A Tech Start-Up).

In this episode, our host, Bianca Vasilache, an A&O associate and former trainee, discusses what it is like to work in A&O’s Disputes department, as well as the impact of Covid-19 on the way in which hearings are conducted, with Helen Biggin, a counsel in the litigation and investigations group (Litigation, L&I), and Edward Levy, an associate in the same group (Litigation, L&I).

In this episode, our host, Bianca Vasilache, an A&O associate and former trainee, discusses what it is like to work in A&O’s Corporate department with James Roe, a corporate finance partner specialising in equity capital markets and governance (Corporate, C8), and Athena Chuang, a newly-qualified associate in the same group (Corporate, C8).