Who We Are

Craig Robinson - Founder

Craig is the founder and CEO of Ultimate Law Guide ("ULG") and author of Ultimate Guide to Training Contract Success. Craig is a commercial and Intellectual Property solicitor. Craig trained as a solicitor at a leading City law firm, qualifying in 2006. Craig also worked at an international City law firm and practised as a solicitor in-house at a global blue-chip company.

Craig delivers a hugely successful programme of commercial awareness skills workshops and professional development seminars to students at The College of Law, BPP Law School and universities nationwide. Craig has also spoken to students at The Law Society on behalf of the Junior Lawyers Division and The National Enterprise Academy.

As the first in his family to go to university and coming from a background with no family history of involvement in law, Craig managed to defy overwhelming odds to successfully navigate his way into the legal profession. Craig is extremely passionate about sending the elevator back down and making a genuine contribution to the drive towards increasing social mobility and widening access to the legal profession. Craig is involved in the Pathways to Law Initiative established by The College of Law in association with The Sutton Trust. Craig regularly speaks at Pathways to Law events and mentors a number of students on this successful national initiative. Craig is also involved in the College of Law's mentoring programme. Craig recently delivered a speech at the annual launch of the Diversity Access Scheme by Addleshaw Goddard in collaboration with BPP Law School. Craig has also been a mentor on the HRH The Prince of Wales's "Seeing is Believing" 14-16 year old students programme at Islington Green School run by Simmons & Simmons.

Craig has also been instrumental in launching ULG's charitable arm: AimHigher Foundation - a major training and mentoring project offering guidance to help talented students from less privileged backgrounds consider law as a career; by providing them with specialist career guidance, opportunities for introductions and work placements to a range of law firms.

For further information, e-mail Craig@ultimatelawguide.com and view Craig's video interview.

 

Kofi Owusu-Bempah

Kofi is the co-founder of ULG and the co-author of Ultimate Guide to Training Contract Success. He has lectured and conducted workshops at the College of Law and Practical Law Company on topics including law firm applications, interviewing skills and commercial awareness (and has written several articles on this topic).

Kofi is a solicitor in the London office of U.S. firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. His areas of expertise are international energy and infrastructure transactions, project finance and cross border finance transactions. He has advised banks, sponsors, governments and multi-laterals. Prior to joining Orrick in 2009, Kofi trained and practised at Linklaters LLP in London and Madrid.

Kofi is a mentor to a number of students who are keen to pursue careers in the City, in particular law. In the past, he has worked with Hackney Schools Mentoring Programme, African-Caribbean Diversity (AC Diversity), the Windsor Fellowship Scholarship Award (of which he is an alumni) as well being involved in ULG's own "AimHigher Foundation" mentoring scheme.

For further information, e-mail Kofi@ultimatelawguide.com

 

Luke Murphy

Luke is the commercial manager of ULG. Luke connects and collaborates with our commercial partners and the student community. Luke also writes our articles, blogs and newsletter for our student community and is responsible for launching our new and innovative information section on in-house lawyers.

Luke is a future trainee solicitor at national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP. Luke has undertaken a range of vacation schemes & work experience placements in several private practice law firms to include niche, regional and city firms. He has also completed internships with in- house legal teams at Vodafone and Yell Group, a leading international directories business.

Luke completed his LL.B (Hons) at the University of Portsmouth in 2009, graduating with a 2.1 in Law and Business. Luke will be commencing the Legal Practice Course in September 2010 at The College of Law.

In his spare time Luke enjoys music and break- dancing. Luke is also passionate about cars and boats, having been a member of his University Go- Kart society and Sailing club. His ultimate dream is to drive a Bentley.

For further information, e-mail Luke@ultimatelawguide.com

 

Andi Daze

Andi is a qualified New York Attorney and previously worked as a researcher at the United Nations. Andi graduated from the University of Essex in 2008 with a 2:1 and also achieved a distinction in the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in 2009.

Andi is responsible for expanding ULG's brand, services and materials worldwide through advertising and social media. Andi has developed marketing strategies to increase awareness of ULG as far and wide as Hong Kong, Malaysia and Africa.

Andi is also responsible for liaising with universities and educational organizations around the world in order to build long-term and sustainable relationships. Along with the other officers of ULG, Andi, is often invited to law firms, universities and other educational providers for seminars, talks and panel discussions. In the process, ULG acquires sponsorship, support and builds a large network of contacts.

All these help to propel ULG in its continued rise as a successful company and helpful guide to law students in their ambitions to becoming legal professionals.

For further information, e-mail Andi@ultimatelawguide.com