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Chris Ball

Chris Ball

Contact Details

 Role  Senior Consultant
 Division  Patent and Trade Marks
 Office  Leeds
 Telephone  0113 245 3338
 Email  chris.ball@saccomann.com
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Who am I and what can I do for you?

I am an experienced Legal Recruiter with a wide knowledge of recruiting specialist IP Professionals, Solicitors and Non-Qualified Legal Professionals throughout the UK. I joined the Patent and Trade Marks Division of Sacco Mann in December 2009, when I relocated to Yorkshire.

I recruit IP Professionals at all levels throughout the UK and further afield, within private practice and industry. With a background in legal practice, I've now been recruiting in the Legal / IP sectors since 2006. I have the ability to deal with a wide range of clients and I am mindful of the needs of smaller independent firms as well as larger multi-national businesses.

 
What else should you know about me?

I enjoy good food (too much) and all sports - particularly Rugby Union. Having abandoned dreams of an international career, my playing days are now largely behind me; instead I enjoy being highly vociferous on the touchline, with pint in hand.

Having deafened my parents and neighbours in equal measure during my youth, it was all for nothing as my career as a drummer in an international band never took off! I'm still hoping that Paul McCartney may give me a call one day!

If I wasn't doing what I'm doing now, what alternative career would I choose and why?

Having given up hopes and dreams of being the next Keith Moon, if I was not recruiting I would choose a career in Sports Journalism. This would allow me to combine my love of sport and travel with a job where I could justifiably voice my opinions (something I'm never afraid to do!)

Likes: Sport, food, drumming, classic comedy (Blackadder / Fawlty Towers / Alan Partridge), The Beatles, films (especially adaptations of books I have read), historical fiction. Theme Parks, Disney, forgetting my age and being a big kid!

Dislikes: Z-list celebrities, hunger, waiting too long to be served in a restaurant, bad manners, poor customer service, tiredness.

Five words that describe me:  Fun, hard-working, determined, sensible, friendly.

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