In the article I walk through the steps I took to set up my own law firm, focusing on the applications for SRA authorisation and PI insurance.

I was desperate to become a lawyer. For me, it was a second career – my first being in human resources – so I needed to go back to university in my late 20s and study the GDL and LPC.

We made the decision to move to Amsterdam fairly quickly; I think it took us 3 days in total. But we’d known for a long time that we wanted to live in Amsterdam, so really it was the decision to move NOW that we made so suddenly.