ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Magazine • ISSUE 9
60-SECONDS WITH: SOPHIA PURKIS PARTNER FLADGATE
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hat do you like most W about your job? The people and the intellectual challenges and psychological aspects of the law.
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hat would you be doing W if you weren’t in this profession? Painting pictures. hat’s the strangest, W most exciting thing you have done in your career? At less than a year qualified, representing a defendant who was subject to a search order and having to advise in relation to the numerous illegal items which were secreted about his house but outside the terms of the search order. hat has been the best W piece of advice you have been given in your career? Get over yourself.
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hat is the most W significant trend in your practice today? The increased use of insolvency procedures to tackle fraud claims, and the development of the responsibility of banks for protecting their clients against scams. hat personality trait do W you most attribute to your success? Humour. ho has been your W biggest role model in the industry? I have learnt from everyone with whom I have worked. hat is something you W think everyone should do at least once in their lives? Laugh until they cry.
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hat is a book you think W everyone should read and why? Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”. A cracking good read and existential travail…but goes off a bit towards the end. hat would be your W superpower and why? Flight. Useful without too much responsibility. s a speaker at FIRE A International, what are you most looking forward to at the event? Meeting up with chums I have not seen for ages and broadening my knowledge of developments in the legal area.
hat is the one thing W you could not live without? At home Marmite and at work a hard copy of the White Book. 45
