My guest on the podcast this week is Lucy Tarrant a Solicitor with over 28 years legal experience and Managing Director at Cognitive Law Limited, she is past President of the Sussex Law Society and someone who has been on a mission to create a place where solicitors could work to live and not live to work. 

In this brilliant episode Lucy talks about how she was a witness in a magistrates court for a road traffic accident and how the prosecuting barrister had inspired her and ignited something inside her to follow a career in the legal profession. She describes her unorthodox path to becoming a solicitor through, hard work and continued determination before working her way to partner in a large regional law firm. However reaching this status had not given Lucy the work life balance that she wanted and as a single parent decided to create a modern law firm that challenged the status quo and championed choice, in 2014 with business partner Stuart Gillespie, Cognitive Law was born. Lucy was adamant that she wanted to create a firm 'where solicitors can work to live not live to work, borne from a deep-seated belief that having a passion for the law doesn't mean sitting at a desk in an office all day, every day; or compromising peoples personal lives'. We discuss some of the challenges she has faced over the past 9 years and despite some of the pressures of growing the firm to five head office staff and 15 solicitors all whom work remotely and flexibly, and how she has maintained her own work life balance, continuing to advocate passionately for giving solicitors their lives back and creating an alternative place to practice the law. This episode is a great example of someone that wanted to do things her way and do things differently, so created her own business that would do just that.

Everyone has a story to tell...

Watch the episode on YouTube ➡️ https://youtu.be/OiG888oZqA0

Find out more about Lucy Tarrant here ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucytarrant/

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