Which of the solicitors on tonight’s The Apprentice is most likely to win?

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By Thomas Connelly on

In pre-show video clips, ex-Slaughter and May associate Felipe exudes regret over corporate law choice, while regional solicitor Lauren wants “success at the highest level”

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As Legal Cheek reported last week series ten of The Apprentice — which hits screens this evening — features two solicitors.

Needless to say, we’re very excited about this head-to-head. Accordingly, we’ve been studying in detail the individual YouTube videos that have been released of St Albans family lawyer Lauren Riley and ex-Slaughter and May associate Felipe Alviar-Baquero.

First up Riley — who describes herself as having “strong social skills and a bit of glamour”.

Riley says she get good results for her clients and that she has increased turnover in her department at work by 7% — let’s just hope that’s not staff turnover. Finally she issues a warning to other contestants:

“If you cross me you’ll know about it”.

Now for Alviar-Baquero. The ex-Slaughter and May associate achieved his dream of attending Oxford University after coming to the UK aged 17 to learn English. Since then he has gone on to feature in a list of the top 100 Colombians of 2012, alongside Shakira.

Interestingly, though, he seems rather down-heartened about his legal career, admitting on video:

“I studied law because I wanted to change the world. I believed I was going to change the world and finished in a corporate law firm.”

In true The Apprentice style, Alviar-Baquero proceeds to refer to himself in the third person as he predicts:

“I think that if Lord Sugar has the opportunity to meet me, and will have the opportunity to talk about who I am, who Felipe is, my vision, my desire, my passion … I think that he will think, ‘Why haven’t I met this guy before?'”

In tonight’s opening episode, the candidates are split into boy versus girl teams, and asked to sell products in London’s Leadenhall Market — a task that may suit Riley’s forthright style better than the more suave approach of Alviar-Baquero.

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