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A day in the life of ... Rachel Cooper
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What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?
I am a family barrister specialising in the full range of family law issues. This means that the remit of my work is very broad. One day I might be acting for a local authority applying for a public law order the next day for a private individual caught within a dispute over the financial or child arrangements following separation. My work also encompasses cases where there is an international element such as child abduction or relocation and alternative families. I also spend a great deal of time on trains and on Google maps finding my way to various courts on a day-to-day basis.
How long have you been in this role and what brought you here?
I have been a proper barrister for 6 months (since October 2018). I was a trainee barrister for a year before that.
What brought me into family law was primarily my fascination with 'the family'. I believe that family is at the heart of everything that we are and at the root of how we interface with the world around us. It is usually quite traumatic when the family unit breaks...
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