The CIE Legal partner chose to ignore that and make a strong career out of law instead
If he’d heeded the results of his careers aptitude test in high school, Jeremy Snow would have been a ferry boat captain. To the benefit of the legal profession, he went on to pursue law instead, recently becoming a technology partner at CIE Legal.
In this November 2024 interview conducted shortly after Snow’s appointment, he talks about gravitating towards the law students at uni and why young lawyers should “give everything a go”.
I initially studied another degree at university but always found myself hanging out with a lot of students studying law. They seemed to have far more interesting stories to share about their studies than I did, so after a year, I made the switch. That interest has continued: everything we come across has a story behind it.
I’ve taken the role of technology partner at CIE Legal and am excited to see what we can do in that area. The foundations were laid this year when the firm made significant upgrades to its IT infrastructure, setting the scene for some exciting projects in 2025. In fact, some of this work has actually already started: we’ve just launched CIE Franchise Flow, a tool that automates the process of amending and executing multiple franchising documents. We anticipate rolling out similar products in different areas too. So, it’s an interesting time to be working with technology at CIE Legal.
One of the lessons I learned early on in my career is to try a range of practice areas – to give everything a go. Every experience you have is valuable and getting exposure to different types of work, especially at the start of your career, helps round out your skills. It’s also difficult to know what type of work floats your boat if you haven’t tried different things.
Clearly, while technology is an opportunity, it is also a huge challenge. With AI in particular, we’re all building the plane while flying it, which is exciting, terrifying and exhausting all at once. As legal practitioners, we don’t need to have the answers, but we do need to remain engaged and informed.
As I’ve recently started, I’m looking forward to getting stuck into my new role at CIE Legal: we have an exciting vision in place and I’m keen to see what we can achieve.
I took a careers aptitude test in high school, and it suggested my ideal career was ferry boat captain. So maybe that?
