Ben Fordham trained at Linklaters and qualified into the tax department there. Last week he said goodbye to law at 1yr PQE and embarked on a new path that will see him open his own restaurant at 56 Goodge Street in July 2008. We wanted to talk to him at this point, while the decision is fresh in his mind, to find out how he’s done it. mtl: Hi Ben, please can you start with your legal background? Ben: I trained at Linklaters and qualified into tax because I found the work