Shakespeare Martineau lawyer Lisa Botterill was one of the very few female corporate partners in the Leicester area. Here, she discusses her career, including her most memorable deals:
“My dad was an accountant and partner at KPMG, but maths wasn’t really my thing so I decided to go into law instead, which was the other revered profession at the time. Having studied languages, I was good with words, although as a corporate lawyer, an understanding of accounts is important so I do still have to deal with numbers as part of my job.
I studied law at the University of Warwick, before completing my Legal Practice Court at De Montfort University. Corporate law and litigation interested me as a trainee, but I didn’t enjoy my litigation seat and I used to dread going to court – you never knew how the judge was going to react.
