A woman with long, wavy brown hair smiling, wearing a black button-up shirt, standing indoors next to a desk with a modern office background.

Esme Steiger

Trainee Solicitor

Esme is a Trainee Solicitor in our commercial and intellectual property team.

She completed her LLB Law undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds — where she also took part in various junior mooting competitions and coached younger students — before completing her SQE1 and SQE2 at BPP University in Leeds.

Outside of work, Esme is a keen runner, swimmer and tennis player.

She joined us in September 2025 and is based in our Leeds office.

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