Bristol Law Society’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ Series

Making your mark!

19 September 2017

Speaker Biography

Bristol Law Society’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ Series

Sally Badham, Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna NabarroOlswang LLP
Sally Badham is a partner in the Real Estate Team of CMS Cameron McKenna NabarroOlswang LLP. Sally has been with the firm since 1996 and has been a Partner since 2003. Sally is based in the Bristol office and has extensive experience of dealing with all types of large institutional and corporate investment and development work acting for the likes of M&G, CBRE Global Investors, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and the Siemens and Thames Water Pension Funds. More recently Sally has become heavily involved in dealing with renewable energy projects and recently acted on the property aspects of the acquisition of four large wind farms and the acquisition, financing and subsequent sale of a portfolio of 26 solar farms. /
Julie Lewis, Managing Partner, Irwin Mitchell
Julie is a Partner at Irwin Mitchell Bristol office specialising in clinical negligence law. She was appointed as the Bristol office Regional Managing Partner in May 2017. Julie trained at Irwin Mitchell Birmingham office and then moved to Bristol in 2010 to set up the clinical negligence team in the newly established Bristol office. Throughout her career Julie has specialised specifically in high value birth injury claims and frequently settles cases worth multi million pounds. Her latest settlement in July 2017 was in respect of a young boy injured as a baby by undiagnosed and untreated jaundice. He has been left with significant physical disability, hearing loss and behavioural problems. The case settled for a capitalised sum of around £14,000,000. Julie has also developed an interest in fatal claims and frequently provides inquest representation. She was involved in the high profile Cardiff kidney cases inquest and made numerous media appearances (BBC, Sky, ITV, BBC 5 Live).
Julie lives in Bristol with her husband and two children aged 18 and 7. /

Bristol Law Society’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ Series

Course content:

I will be talking about my career progression from trainee through to regional managing partner and the challenges of combining a successful and demanding career with family life. I will touch on where I think my approach to career progression has been successful and reflect on where I may have done things differently with the benefit of hindsight.

In terms of CPD, this session will support Part A2 of the SRA’s key competency statement.