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Philippa King bit.ly/3negkgY
Current position: Environmental Law Consultant
Past positions: Lecturer in Environmental Law at University of KwaZulu-Natal Lecturer in Environmental Law at University of Cape Town Senior Associate at Smith Ndlovu Summers Attorneys Candidate Attorney at Bowman Gilfillan
Academic history: 2008 Master of Laws (LLM) in Marine and Environmental Law at UCT 2006 Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at Rhodes University (RU) 2004 Bachelor of Commerce at RU
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How did you transition into being an environmental law consultant? When we moved to KZN (after I was in practice for more than 6 years in Cape Town and spent a year lecturing at UCT), I continued with some lecturing at UKZN but started working with other attorneys and consultants as an environmental law consultant. The rest is history...
What do your day-to-day responsibilities look like? I prefer advisory-type work, so quite a lot of what I do involves legal research and opinion writing. But every matter is different.
What value do your qualifications add to your work? My law qualifications have been invaluable to the work that I do. While my LLB provided my legal foundation, my LLM in Marine and Environmental Law was what really got me onto this career path.
The key skills which I have gained through my legal studies are critical analysis and problem solving
