Protecting the Games: a day in the life of an Olympic brand protection lawyer
06 March 2012
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Emma Barraclough, London
Farisha Constable, a senior lawyer from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, describes a typical day in the office
I’m really happy to get out of bed and come to work. This is my dream job.
Once I get to the office I check my voicemail for messages left overnight: people might be calling about an infringement; it might be someone in marketing who needs advice or it could be about ticket touting. I get the details and then decide what we should do.
We have less than six months to go to the Olympic Games so we’re busy. The whole of LOCOG are working round the clock so it’s really not unusual to see an email come in from one of the other departments at 10 or 11 o’clock at night. Again, we’ll check that there isn’t anything super urgent that needs to be dealt with immediately and start looking at some of the things I can ask Sarah [a trainee lawyer at Freshfields seconded to...
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