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A day in the life of ... David Lister
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What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?
I am an Associate Solicitor and part of the Private Wealth team at Irwin Mitchell. I am also about to take over as the Chairman of the
YRes National Committee from August.
I conduct a lot of my own advocacy which means that I am often away from my desk during the day. As gratifying as being at the coal face in Court can be it can mean that most evenings are spent on the phone to or emailing clients. Thankfully I have a very understanding family.
I supervise a number of junior members of my team and support them with their development alongside managing our national family law team’s social media accounts which can be hard when there are 50 family lawyers to keep track of and when we are often in the press as a result of cases such as...
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