John Sykes
Who I am
and what can I do for you?
I specialise in placing people into
permanent roles in Private Practice across the North of
England. My own background in law has been diverse and
extensive across 15 years. Starting in 1991 as the office junior at
Eaton Smith (Huddersfield), on qualification I practiced Insolvency
at Lupton Fawcett (Leeds) where I was nicknamed Bill Sykes.
Ultimately I specialised in Construction Law at DLA Piper
(Sheffield) and Hammonds (working out of Leeds, Manchester and
London). In September 2007 I took up the challenge of legal
recruitment when I joined the Sacco Mann team in Leeds. I am still
called Bill.
What else
should you know about me?
Outside work I have an abundance of
peccadillo's, most incorporating fine food and fine wine across
more years than it would be polite to say. My active interest in
the Arts and Membership of the British Film Institute has developed
both an enthusiastic and a bewildering exegesis of film and
sequential art. To which all who converse with me can attest. I
mostly invest my spare time improving and decorating my home that
is a refurbished white elephant with a fantastic view. At home I am
called many things but not Bill.
If I wasn't doing what I'm
doing now, what alternative career would I choose and
why?
Movie producer. Don Simpson,
legend.
Likes: Marriage and
success.
Dislikes: Arguing and
anchovies.
Five words
that describe me: Impassioned, eloquent,
civilised, ample and melodramatic.