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Rachel Burnett

Rachel Burnett Hon D.Tech, FBCS, CITP is a retired solicitor who was an expert on English information technology law.

After obtaining a degree in sociology at the University of Exeter, she worked in a range of IT roles including systems analysis and development, and project management. During this time she studied law via distance learning and in 1985 she became a partner in an early IT legal practice.

After partnerships in leading IT/IP law firms and her own niche commercial IT law firm for seven years, she headed up the specialist IT/IP team at Paris Smith LLP in Southampton, Hampshire.

She was an associate lecturer with the Law Programme at the Open University for ten years.

She was awarded an Honorary degree of Doctor of Technology by Southampton Solent University. Provided by Wikipedia