Rachel Hunter
Associate at Slaughter and May
Name: Rachel Hunter
Matriculation Year: 2012
Subject: BA Jurisprudence
Occupation: Solicitor at Slaughter and May specialising in employment and pensions law.
Bio: At the end of my second year studying law at Hertford, I applied for and was offered a training contract at Slaughter and May. After I graduated, I decided I wasn’t quite ready to enter the real world and deferred my training contract for two years. In that period, I edited the law reports for Gibraltar (from the glamorous location of the Oxford business park) and then completed the BCL at Trinity College just over the road. I really enjoyed employment law both on my undergraduate law degree and on the BCL and decided I wanted to be an employment lawyer. So I moved to London to start my training contract and qualified as a solicitor in the Pensions, Employment and Incentives team at Slaughter and May in 2020. I’ve been there ever since and spent six months living and working in New York along the way. I really enjoy working on high profile transactions that make it into the news as well as contentious and reputationally sensitive matters involving senior executives. I’d be delighted to speak to any current students interested in employment law or corporate law more generally.