Karen Jackson
Managing Partner

The force behind didlaw is Karen Jackson, a solicitor and Notary Public. Karen graduated from University College London in 1989 with a First and worked in the City for Arthur Andersen, J P Morgan and finally at Union Bank of Switzerland as a futures broker. After 7 years of non-stop stress on the trading floor she graduated law school with a Distinction and trained as a solicitor at Mishcon de Reya in London. Karen then became Head of Legal UK and Eire for the cosmetics giant L'Oreal, where most of her work focussed on employment. Karen founded didlaw following successful heart transplantation surgery at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge in 2006. She is highly attuned to the issues around illness and disability in the workplace although her experience was more positive than most. She enjoys putting her technical and people skills to good use.

Karen says: “I'm passionate about didlaw. The best thing about my job is the satisfaction of helping people and businesses through difficult times. I like using my energy to manage tricky situations, which are really stressful and time consuming, achieving a positive outcome.”

Karen loves: long walks with her three dog pack, swimming, opera, baking and her Texan husband's fantastic food. She has appeared in The Guardian, Red and Prima magazines to talk about her experience of transplantation and also on the Charlie Crocker Show on BBC Radio Solent. For obvious reasons she is an ardent promoter of the Organ Donor Register.

Right now more than 10,000 people in the UK need
an organ transplant that could save or dramatically
improve their lives. But each year around 1,000
people die while waiting for a transplant.

Help us to give these people the chance for a new life.

To join the NHS Organ Donor Register and give the gift of life,
click here or call 0300 123 23 23.

Katy Carter
Office Manager

Kate brings oodles of experience to didlaw both in office management and legal secretarial. Among her previous jobs Kate lived and worked in London as a personal assistant to a member of the House of Lords which she describes as a fabulous job which she absolutely loved. She has worked for consultants MacIvor Grant in the field of political research and has worked as a legal secretary in private client at Barlow Robbins in Guildford and Thomas Eggar in Chichester. In her younger years Kate lived and worked in Madrid and in the last few years has worked in Spain again, this time in a restaurant and on a yacht.

Kate loves music and festivals, the Isle of Wight festival being her favourite summer haunt. She is a sunshine junkie, a big fan of food, mostly Chinese, and is a white wine drinker. If she wasn’t doing this job she’d like to work with autistic children.