Meet just some of BLD's team below.  

Debo Nwauzu

Debo is a non-practising solicitor and the founder and Chair of Totally Management Ltd, owners of BLD.  Not only was BLD her brainchild, but also its Legal Gateway Scheme, which includes the Today's Children, Tomorrow's Lawyers (TCTL) and the Legal Launch Pad (LLP) programmes. In addition, she is the Editorial Director and publisher of BLD’s ground-breaking Black Letter Law publication, which showcases the achievements of black and ethnic minorities within the legal profession.

Debo was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1989 and was admitted as a solicitor in 1992. She has also been a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria since 1986.

In 2009, The Lawyer magazine named Debo as one of its Hot 100 lawyers of 2008. In 2011 she joined the panel of judges, chaired by Cherie Booth QC, for the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards. 

Annabel Burrows

Annabel is the Legal Launch Pad Co-ordinator. A former senior manager in the financial services sector, Annabel has over 14 years’ experience as a qualified management trainer.  She is an experienced coach and mentor and a recruitment and selection specialist with extensive experience of interviewing and assessing (particularly graduate, senior manager and executive level appointments), use of competency frameworks, delivery and management of selection centres as well as market-leading expertise in the graduate recruitment and development arena for companies such as Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Fujitsu Services. 

An influential figure in the graduate recruitment arena, Annabel has appeared as guest speaker and panellist at numerous industry events and conferences, including the Association of Graduate Recruiters’ Conference and the UCAS Graduate Employability Conference.   She was on the AGR Conference planning team from 2003 to 2005 and from 2005 to 2008 was on the judging panel of the TARGET National Graduate Recruitment Awards. 

Shelagh Meredith

Shelagh is the sub-editor and researcher for BLD’s ground-breaking Black Letter Law publication. She is a former Fleet Street sub-editor and has been a journalist for more than 30 years. She trained as a reporter on the Scarborough Evening News in North Yorkshire, qualifying in 1977, and worked there between 1974 and 1984, before moving to the Cambridge Evening News as a sub-editor.

She left the Cambridge Evening News in 1989 to become a freelance journalist and worked as a sub-editor in London on the Daily Mail and Daily Express before starting a family. Shelagh continues to work as a freelance journalist.