Staying on the ball

TO JOURNALISTS at least, Amanda Jones's CV invites some questions that are perhaps as predictable as they are inevitable. For example, has her decision to specialise in discrimination law stemmed from some bitter personal experience of sexism at work? Did she have to claw her way up the ladder, fighting tooth-and-perfectly-manicured-nail to secure a partnership with one of Scotland's leading firms?

Doubtless Jones is becoming used to such questions but, no, she doesn't believe gender has been a barrier in her career - and the evidence would certainly support such a view.

After qualifying in 1997, Jones had achieved partnership with niche em...