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Daiwa Capital Markets director of legal and transaction management Miranda Brawn and Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge chat about what they learnt from law school

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Investment banker Miranda Brawn (pictured above) has worked her way to the top, studying a business degree part-time after entering the City of London straight from school. As her career gained a risk management focus, she went on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and the then Bar Vocational Course — again part-time — in order to advance her career. The University of Law graduate had no intention of doing a pupillage.

Like Brawn, Legal Cheek founder Alex Aldridge (pictured above) didn’t do a pupillage — although not for want of trying: the University of Law GDL and bar course graduate is a veteran of more than 30 unsuccessful pupillage interviews. But his blogs about his time as a wannabe barrister got him noticed by The Times, who gave him a start in journalism. Four years ago he launched Legal Cheek.

Brawn and Aldridge reflect on the value of their legal education in the podcast below.

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