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“This experience inspired my career choice and will help me empathise with people who are going through similar difficulties,” said Ms Garland, who attended St Mary’s School, Hull, before starting her law studies at the University of Hull in 1997.
“Even though I’ve had a lot of family support, it has taken me a long time to get through all the qualifications, but it shows that, if you really want to, you can achieve your goals, no matter what happens.”
Two years after joining Williamsons in 2004 she started a part-time legal practice course at York, at the suggestion of the firm’s family law partner Sarah Clubley, who also helped arrange financial support for Ms Garland through the Legal Services Commission.
Ms Garland is now one of a seven-strong team of lawyers in Williamsons Solicitors’ family and childcare department.
Williamsons’ partner Bill Waddington commented: “Emma has shown true perseverance and it will benefit our clients that she has experience first hand some of the difficulties that they may be going through.”
Ms Garland, who received her formal qualification as a solicitor from Robert Heslett, vice president of the Law Society, at a graduation ceremony in London, also has a keen interest in politics, fostered by her mother, former Lord Mayor of Hull, Coun Elaine Garland, to whom she was nominated escort.
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