This week Vivian is joined by Christopher Hitchins, UK Managing Partner of ‘Transatlantic firm of the year’, at Katten. 

As well as being one of the UK’s top employment lawyers and leading one of the city’s fastest-growing firms, Chris is also that rarest of beasts; a straight-talking lawyer who isn’t afraid to be brutally honest about his own privilege, his personal failings and the sometimes-toxic culture of top law firms. 

Like many lawyers, Chris feared his biggest failure was (initially) not making partner, but the real ‘failure’ came after he’d made partner when, at a previous firm, he found himself presiding over the very type of toxic culture he’d strived to avoid. 

At that point, Chris’s story took a dramatic turn when a health crisis threatened to destroy his career but also left him with a strange ‘superpower’ and new sense of perspective. 

Follow Christopher Hitchins on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherhitchins

Find out more about Katten here: https://katten.com

Original theme music composed by Lee Olivier Hall. Listen in full here: https://spoti.fi/3Qefe2H

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