The day I was sacked felt like the end of the world. How easy or difficult did you find the move? I’ve written two more sports books and another novel. Wrecking Machine, published in 2005, was my first book. That agent sold my story - of getting into boxing and finding order out of chaos - to Simon & Schuster. I also wrote a novel, which secured a literary agent. So I started banging on editors’ doors and managed to get pieces away in the nationals and magazines, while still working as a night lawyer. One thing I realised: I was desperate to write. I returned to London and worked on the night lawyer rotas of national newspapers. But I was a troubled soul back then and eventually erupted at a work function, behaving very badly. In a bid to escape the temptations of the media world in London, I moved from my second job in the law (as Richard Desmond’s head of legal affairs) to Wiggin, the Cheltenham-based media law firm. What steps did you take to make that move a reality (include details of resources that you found particularly helpful)? But becoming a freelance journalist and writer was down to a life-changing event in my early 30s. While studying the law conversion course, I targeted libel law firms for articles. What was your reason(s) for choosing your career path? I qualified as a solicitor with Carter-Ruck in 1994, having done my articles with them too. What was your first job as a qualified solicitor? The rather prosaic truth is that it seemed sensible to follow in the family footsteps - Dad is a solicitor, too. I got nowhere.īy then my brother had completed a law degree. After university I took a year out, and returned hoping to crack it as a writer and/or journalist. I studied American and English Literature at UEA - books and writing were my passion. Why did you go into law in the first place? Current position and immediate former position: Writer, freelance journalist and pre-publication lawyer for The Times, Guardian and other publishers.
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