Paulo Karat
About Us - Paulo Karat
What University did you go to?
Oxford (Balliol College)
When did you qualify as a solicitor?
1 September 1999
What's your area of law?
Intellectual Property and Commercial
What firms did you work for?
Freeth Cartwright in Nottingham and Addleshaw Booth & Co (now Addleshaw Goddard) in Leeds
Were you involved in supervising trainees when you were in practice?
Yes.
What are your links now with practice?
I am a practising solicitor and work part-time for Henderson Risk Limited (www.hendersonrisk.com) as its in-house Company Legal Counsel.
I also head up a coaching consultancy ('Coaching Lawyers') which works with lawyers one-to-one, in their teams and departments and with senior law firm management. We help lawyers review and improve the way they work and help them focus on and achieve professional objectives. We help teams of lawyers work more effectively as a unit and achieve departmental objectives. We help senior law firm management look at both business strategy and managing law firm talent.
What's the Nottingham Law School connection?
I have 8 years of experience in legal education and training, working part-time as a Senior Lecturer on LPC, GDL and LLM courses. I am also a course designer for the Nottingham at Kaplan Law School in London, writing tailored LPC programmes for corporate and commercial law firms.
Personal stuff
I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to an English Mum, a Brazilian Dad, an Egyptian grandfather and a Portuguese grandmother.
I have a black belt in ju-jitsu and am currently working towards my 2nd dan.