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I am a Senior Associate in the Dechert London Financial Services Group team whose practice focuses on all things derivatives, trading document and related regulatory. Someday soon I hope to become a Partner.<\/p>\n

I started my career at another US law firm and with some time sandwiched in the middle at an international investment bank, spent all of my career until early 2018 in the same team. In Spring 2018 I joined Dechert where I am now very much part of the furniture.<\/p>\n

I have become a Professional Ambassador because I believe that everyone who is willing to work hard and has a dream should be given a chance to succeed: whoever or whatever they are, and wherever they come from. Looking back to my ambitious young self whose strategy was really just to keep pumping the proverbial treadmill until I got what I wanted, having a platform like Aspiring Solicitors would have been very useful for me and I\u2019m fortunate now to be in a position to help those around me. Notwithstanding my background I don\u2019t think it was until I was on a summer vacation scheme at a magic circle law firm mid-way during university, did it hit me that I was a bit different. Still here to tell the tale though and today I\u2019m proud to be a bit different, although I don\u2019t actually feel very different at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12262,"template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKaren S | Dechert | Aspiring Solicitors - Law Careers Diversity Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I am a Senior Associate in the Dechert London Financial Services Group team whose practice focuses on all things derivatives, trading document and related\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk\/ambassador\/karen-s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karen S | Dechert | Aspiring Solicitors - Law Careers Diversity Advice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am a Senior Associate in the Dechert London Financial Services Group team whose practice focuses on all things derivatives, trading document and related\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk\/ambassador\/karen-s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aspiring Solicitors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-11T22:33:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/karen-s.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk\/ambassador\/karen-s\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk\/ambassador\/karen-s\/\",\"name\":\"Karen S | Dechert | Aspiring Solicitors - 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