When Slaughter and May’s managing partner, Deborah Finkler, started at Slaughter and May in 1986, it would only be five years until she made partner—a rarity in the capital for a woman of her state-school educated, Jewish, Liverpool-hailing background.
The day after International Women’s Day, disputes partner Finkler, who became Slaughters’ managing partner in May 2022, talks about how she navigated a male-dominated legal industry, her career highlights—including winning a case that had been deemed “bound to fail”—and listening to 80s music in the office.
