Annabel Meir

Professional Biography
Personal Biography

Where/when you studied: Universite Lyon 3 undergraduate exchange in International Law (2023-2024); University of Leeds LLB (2021-2025)

Professional expertise before joining the firm: Worked in the criminal department of a Cumbria based law firm; completed various mini pupilage and judge marshalling in Lancashire and Yorkshire

When you joined the firm: July 2025

Department responsibilities (within the firm): Covering general criminal defence, regulatory crime and civil litigation

Areas of special legal expertise:

Committees or organisations (to support the claim of specialist legal expertise): Former advocacy worker at Citizens Advice and Leeds Refugee Forum

Name: Annabel Meir

Position: Paralegal

Where educated: Cartmel Priory Secondary School; Lancaster Royal Grammar Sixth Form; Universite Jean Moulin Lyon 3; University of Leeds

First job: Waitress in the Lake District

Hobbies: Painting, playing the guitar, hill walking

Favourite food: Cheese and crackers!!

Favourite film: Jackie Brown

Favourite group/artist: The Dire Straits

Ultimate holiday destination: Australia, Egypt

Favourite sport/team: Football and rock climbing

Favourite book: Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris

Likes: Time with family & friends, the Lakes, the Munros

Dislikes: Water parks & keyboard warriors

Personal ambition: To play the hard part of “sultans of swing” on guitar, and to learn recipes from various parts of the world

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