I’m really excited to announce that I’ve been awarded Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation Award 2021. As the first lawyer to ever win this award, I’m thrilled to have the recognition and support to accelerate my vision of driving innovation in the legal industry, whilst surrounding myself with brave thinkers from other industries that we have so much to learn from.

Over the last few years I’ve learned that nothing in life is permanent; uncertainty is the only certainty. Like many teenagers, I had failed to grasp just how true this statement was. I'd had a conventional upbringing, I was on track to secure the grades that would map out my future, and I could see the life that lay ahead of me.

Entrepreneurship has become a topic of its very own, studied in universities, colleges and even corporate institutions. Learning how to become an entrepreneur was unheard of when I was at school - it certainly never came up in the pointless questionnaires which told us which career we were destined for. But is entrepreneurship something you can learn, or learn from?

In the article I walk through the steps I took to set up my own law firm, focusing on the applications for SRA authorisation and PI insurance.

I was desperate to become a lawyer. For me, it was a second career – my first being in human resources – so I needed to go back to university in my late 20s and study the GDL and LPC.