What’s your name and role here at Circe Law?
My name’s Elizabeth Freeman, and I’m a Senior Paralegal in the Private Client department.
How has you first week been?
It’s been really good, I settled in very quickly and the team has been super helpful at getting me integrated – I’m glad I came across!
So obviously you were familiar with Circe before joining – what were your first impressions of the firm?
I was very excited about the firm. A lot of firms advertise their great case loads, or interesting/high net worth work as being their biggest draws for new staff, whereas Circe is very value-first driven (though they have that other stuff too). A lot of firms I have found at the moment fall into the trap of wanting to be more modern but then get wrapped up in the red tape of it all. I think Circe doesn’t seem to be put off by the bureaucracy of it all and just ploughs through. It’s nice to see someone putting their money where their mouth is.
What are your impressions now?
Yeah, I think I hit the nail on the head. What hadn’t occurred to me prior to joining was that whilst being a young firm comes with its own challenges, it does give rise to opportunities you may not get anywhere else. I have found it to be almost like a co-operative where we can all get involved with dreaming up ways that we can improve the culture and processes, and you’re not shoehorned into sitting in a dark corner and soullessly churning out bills with little regard for anything else.
What’s one thing you want people to know about you?
I’m gonna say that I might have a young face, but if you ask me to sing ‘Sign of the Times’, I’m singing Prince not Harry Styles.
What does your ideal colleague look like?
Someone friendly who wants to get the work for the client done and in good order, who doesn’t shy away from the tasks they don’t want to do, but at the same time isn’t too militant and knows when to cut loose.
What’s your favourite thing about Circe Law?
All the purple, everywhere, it’s very feminine, I love it – Oh wait, the fact that there are always biscuits in the kitchen, even though I don’t eat biscuits. It’s just knowing they’re there.
