Hertford Law Network Drinks
Hertford Law Network Drinks
20 June 2024 - 19:00
Event Details
Please join us for a new kind of Hertford law event, open to all alumni who studied law and those now working in the legal profession.
Timings
19:00 Arrival; networking drinks and refreshments
19:45 Update from Tutorial Fellow in Law Dr Aruna Nair, followed by a panel discussion and Q+A: How to be a human in the legal profession
Location: The Dilly, 21 Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG
Dress code: Smart / casual
Tickets cost £15, or £10 for those who matriculated after 2010/£7 for Hertford10 members.
We are grateful to Clifford Chance for sponsoring the event.
How to be a human in the legal profession
The relentless pursuit of excellence, the weight of extensive hours, and the advent of AI … this panel will explore why it has never been more important for lawyers to be more human, and how we can create healthy cultures and become inspiring leaders in the legal profession.
Moderator: Jenni Emery (1995)
Jenni Emery is a recovering M&A lawyer who has spent the last twenty+ years in strategy and people roles in the world’s leading firms. These days, she works with CEOs and other senior leaders as a sounding board, adviser, coach, and a founding partner at Altair Advisory LLP. Jenni’s book on leading transformational change in people businesses was shortlisted for Business Book of the Year in 2020. She teaches coaching on the faculty at Meyler Campbell, is on the board at Westminster Abbey and is a published poet. She lives in North London with her husband David (also a Hertford 1995 alumnus), their four children and two unruly dogs.
Panelist: Jonathan Kewley (2000)
Jonathan Kewley is an international lawyer, AI ethicist and investor. He is a partner at Clifford Chance and chairs its global Tech Group, a cross-disciplinary team of 600+ lawyers and policy experts advising on tech risk and opportunity. He has a particular focus on the cutting edge areas of AI, cyber security, data and technology safety. Jonathan’s projects span M&A, tech investment, regulatory engagement and government relations. He is leading AI projects and advising boards at some of the world’s largest companies, sits on AI ethics boards of several global businesses, and is on the selection panel of Schwarzman Scholars in New York.
Panelist: Joanne Wicks KC (1985)
Joanne Wicks KC proved her mother wrong (“you’ll never get into Oxford with table manners like that”) but her tutors right (“Joanne would do a great deal better if she put as much energy into her studies as she does on the river”). She is a barrister at Wilberforce Chambers, a Deputy High Court Judge, arbitrator and mediator. Specialising in property law, Joanne has litigated many important cases, from the medieval law of hedges, to the question on everyone’s lips, namely, how many £1 coins can you fit into a Ferrero Rocher box?
Panelist: Dr Farzana Aslam (1991)
Farzana is a legal headhunter, DE&I consultant, and executive coach. Prior to her current role her 20+ year legal career covered time as a Barrister, in-house employment Counsel for Asia-Pacific for an American Investment Bank, legal academic, and workplace consultant. Farzana has a keen interest in diversity and wellbeing within the legal profession, believing the two to be inextricably linked. Farzana’s doctoral research explored the phenomenon of the gender disparity within the senior ranks of the profession, focusing on why women continue to leave global law firm practice in greater numbers than men.