'Now that I work in financial crime and sports management, its numbers and figures that get hurt here, not people, but obviously I will always roll my sleeves up and defend serious crime.вЂќ 'When youвЂ™ve had to deal with clients in these cases, straight talking and want results you become tough so turning my hand to sports contracts and negotiation was more like a hobby.

If youвЂ™re passionate you fight to win for your clients.ДЄdam started his own law firm in a small bedroom at his first house in Redditch with wife-to-be Natasha (Image: Adam Rasul) I have never treated a law firm like an institution and there is no set hours. 'Going through those thousands of hours taking instructions on heroin cases, drugs cases, serious fraud, you get to really work out what kind of lawyer you have to be. You need to graft for clients, there is no cutting corners, and then gain their trust. 'However, by being frank and seeing the stresses of legal aid on firms I actually felt for clients and it prompted the idea of a strict private criminal practice. He recalls: 'When you've sat at Strangeways opposite a serious gangster accused of torture, high level drug dealing and murder shouting at you saying вЂњwho are you, where is my brief, why have I got some poxy paralegalвЂќ it should be intimidating. He says: вЂњEarly on I could see there was a niche in exceptional client care, private criminal defence and in general a вЂchampagne serviceвЂ™ as some firms I had experienced did not keep that consistency.вЂќД«ut during those early years as a paralegal, straight from law school, he would also experience the toughest side of criminal law.

He completed his law degree in 2003 and started his first paralegal job in Manchester. Adam Rasul with boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard (Image: Adam Rasul)

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