Legal Cheek Careers sits down with Shah Qureshi
“Above all, Irwin Mitchell is the most down-to-earth firm I have worked at,” says Shah Qureshi, head of the firm’s employment and professional discipline team in London. Since joining, he has helped grow the team from three people into a 13-strong practice advising senior executives and professionals. Speaking to Legal Cheek Careers, Qureshi discusses developing junior talent and navigating an employment law landscape shaped by legislative reforms and the rise of AI.
“During my childhood, law was not really on my radar,” Qureshi recalls. Growing up as a South Asian child in the 1970s and 1980s, he became conscious of discrimination, while films about Gandhi and Nelson Mandela showed him the role lawyers could play in fighting for equality. “I was always drawn to the equality side of the law,” he says. Even so, he found the “black letter law aspect” of his university studies less appealing and initially pursued journalism instead.
While working in journalism, Qureshi also volunteered at Citizens Advice, where helping clients navigate legal problems changed his perspective on the profession. Lawyers, he realised, are “essentially problem solvers as much as they are possessors of black letter law knowledge”. The experience prompted him to complete the Legal Practice Course (LPC) part-time while continuing to work full-time at Citizens Advice.
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