Elizabeth Huang on Competition Law, Digital Regulation, and Applying to Slaughter and May
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Elizabeth Huang discusses her journey in competition law and offers insights on legal careers and training contracts.
Join me for this episode with Elizabeth Huang, an associate in Slaughter and May’s Competition and Regulatory team, who discusses her path from studying law and completing the BCL (focused on law, technology, and society) to joining the firm as a trainee in 2021 and qualifying into the Competition group in 2023. She shares advice for vacation schemes and training contract applicants, emphasising seeking university careers support, prioritising quality over quantity, tailoring applications, and giving personal, genuine reasons for “why law” and “why this firm.” Elizabeth explains Slaughter and May’s multi-specialist approach, her varied training contract seats (including a secondment to the firm’s Hong Kong office), and how seat changes build skills. She outlines competition work across merger control, antitrust/behavioural matters, and the emerging field of digital regulation, describing the work lawyers do in advising clients on regulator-facing strategy, investigations, and compliance. She addresses work-life balance realities, noting it can get easier after qualification, and highlights a major project advising a big tech company in the UK’s…
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