After growing up living around the world, Louise Soraya Black worked at several top City firms and PLC before winning a prize for her first novel, which was published in October 2010. Her book is a love story based in Tehran and she drew on her experiences of living there as well as the fact that she is half-Iranian. She is now focusing on her career as a writer and looking after her young son. mtl: Hi Louise, please can you tell us why you went into law in London and about y

We spoke to Emma Kennedy (of radio, film and TV fame) about her stint as a trainee at Macfarlanes, her 18m of litigation at Stephens Innocent (now Finers Stephens Innocent) and her successful career post-law (including several books and six more in the pipeline over the next three years). Despite being very involved in writing and performing at university, she went on to train as a solicitor and only picked them up again up seven years later. We asked her about her career a