Melissa Hardee is a solicitor and was training partner at CMS Cameron McKenna and then Director of the Legal Practice Course at City University's Inns of Court School of Law, before setting up international consultancy, Hardee Consulting, in 2008.She has long been involved in legal education as chair of representative professional and education bodies, and as a member of regulatory committees and working groups, as well as validation panels in England, Wales and Scotland for the various stages of legal education. She is President of the City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society and the author of the Legal Training Handbook.