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Janvi Patel is a NewLaw pioneer and has been spearheading operational, structural and cultural change within the legal services industry since starting Halebury in 2007.  Her aim: to create an entirely original business model to service the needs of clients and lawyers at the senior end of the market. The firm now has partnerships with clients such at BT, Sky and Virgin Media, a growing roster of clients in the TMT and FS sectors and a team of more than 30 senior in-house lawyers who provide flexible resourcing solutions as well as strategic in-house management support to FTSE 250 and SME businesses.

As Chairwoman of Halebury, Janvi leads the firm with passion, vision and inspiration not only for genuine change within the industry from a service delivery point of view, but with regard to wider industry issues such as diversity and women in leadership. She is as a Board member on Thomson Reuter’s In-House Consultation Board, blogs regularly about growth and change within the in-house legal sector and is a regular contributor to Huffington Post.

Outside the legal industry, she is actively involved in the Children of War Foundation and is a long-standing Steering Committee Member for the Cherie Blair Foundation mentoring programme. She featured on the UK’s first ever Power Part Time 50 list, has been awarded a prestigious Red Women Award through Red Magazine and was nominated for the Great British Entrepreneur and Asian Women of the Year Awards. She was also listed in City A.M.’s Women in the City Powerlist.