Janey Rankin, Trainee Solicitor interviews Barry Stanton, Partner and Head of the Employment and Immigration team. In this episode, Barry describes his experience becoming a lawyer and how it was something he wanted to do since a young age. He has had an extensive career and after working with Boyes Turner for the last 21 years he tells us his favourite aspect of his career so far.

In this podcast, Emma O’Connor, Director and Head of HR Training, is joined by Carolyn Sykes of Raise Your Gaze www.raiseyourgaze.coach to discuss why menopause should be on the HR agenda.  With 1 in 10 women reportedly leaving the workforce due to menopause, at a time when retention and recruitment are tricky topics, this is an issue HR cannot ignore.  Emma and Carolyn discuss how can businesses support those who are suffering or managing their menopause symptoms, raise awareness of menopause within their workplace and champion and empower women at work.

Aimee Gaston, Trainee Solicitor interviews Julie Marsh, Partner in the Medical Negligence Team. Julie has been with the firm for over 14 years starting out as a trainee and recently being appointed as a Partner. Julie talks about her experience being a newly appointed Partner and how she balances it all.

In this podcast, we flip the idea of tales from the top and instead of answering the questions Boyes Turner’s Partner, Julie Marsh gets to ask the questions to our two trainees Meg Manganaro and Aimee Gaston.

Julie talks to the trainees about their time at the firm so far. Meg and Amy answer interesting questions about what made them want to become a solicitor, what a typical day in the life of a trainee is and the difficulties that they may face.

Claire Roantree, Partner in the Personal Injury team is joined by Doctor Ian McCurdie a consultant in rehabilitation medicine and Allyson Ballard an occupational therapist who are co-founders of Remedy Healthcare UK to talk about rehabilitation in complex trauma/musculoskeletal injuries and amputation.

In this episode Paul Lowery, Head of Wills, Trusts and Probate talks to Sophie Payne, Senior Associate in Boyes Turner’s Corporate team about sole directors and shareholders of private companies and the potential pitfalls that can occur in the event of their death.

In this podcast Boyes Turner’s Meg Manganaro is joined by Kim Milan, Senior Partner and Head of Personal Injury at the firm.

Meg and Kim discuss highlights of Kim’s career, how she became Senior Partner and the responsibilities of the role, and what further impact she plans to make at the firm.

In this special episode, recorded live at the Law Society in London, Margarita Sivakova, co-founder and CEO of Ukrainian start-up Legal Nodes, tells Joanna Goodman about her dramatic escape from Kyiv, where she was visiting family, when war broke out. Since returning to London, Margarita has been running Legal Nodes remotely, supporting her team and their families, many of whom are still in Ukraine’s war zone, pivoting the business and launching new Web3 products. Margarita takes us through her fascinating personal and professional journey from law student in London to tech entrepreneur and wartime CEO.

Julie Marsh, Medical Negligence Partner interviews Bobby Griffin after his elective amputation. Bobby was a motorcyclist involved in a road traffic accident and was left with an injury to his left lower limb. He went on to choose to become a below knee amputee and forge a medal winning career as a Team GB parabadminton player.

As employers how can we drive forward inclusive workplaces? What are the benefits of engaging with a diversity awareness and training programme? What are the legal risks of failing to do so? In our latest podcast, Emma O’Connor, Director, speaks to Chico Chakravorty Founder of Doing Diversity Differently (www.doingdiversitydifferently.com) about just that : thinking differently about their ED+I programmes and what employers want to achieve from them.  Emma and Chico discuss the challenges to a successful ED+I programme, how we can be “clumsily human” and what are the postitive benefits of training and awareness programmes.