Get To Know The Executive Team

LUBNA SHUJA

Lubna qualified as a solicitor in 1992. She was a partner in a high street firm in West Yorkshire for many years and then started her own practice in Birmingham in 2007 undertaking mediation, family and civil litigation. Lubna became a CEDR accredited Mediator in 2005, and is dual qualified to conduct both Civil and Family mediations. 

Get To Know The Executive Team
Get To Know The Executive Team : Lubna Shuja

Lubna has been a member of the SPG Executive Committee since 2007 and was chair in 2012/2013. She became one of the nominated Council Members for the Group with Ian Lithman in 2013.

Newly elected Deputy Vice-President of the Law Society of England and Wales Luba gives us an insight into why she choose law, what her motivations are and her ultimate go to karaoke song!

  1. Why Law?

When I was at school, law was not even on my radar as I never thought I could ever become a lawyer.  Then I did better in my A level exams than my teachers had predicted, and a good friend persuaded me that a law degree would offer much better options than an English degree (which is what I had a place to do).  I got into University to study Law and absolutely loved learning about cases and their application to daily life.  The rest is history and I will be eternally grateful to my very dear friend for such wise advice. 

  • What is your favourite thing about your career?

The people I meet and the stories I hear.  Human nature never ceases to amaze me.

  • What motivates you?

Doing a job well and making a positive difference to someone’s life.

  • What did you want to be when you were a child?

An all singing, all dancing star in a Hollywood musical.  Until I was told by my drama teacher that I was tone deaf and could not sing! 

  • What was your first job?

A Saturday job working on a market stall in Bradford.

  • What makes you laugh the most?

Being with family or close friends when something silly happens and we end up laughing hysterically for no real reason. 

  • If you had a warning label, what would yours say?

Liable to start dancing if in close proximity to loud music.

  • What was the last book you read?

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.  Highly recommended.  Makes you really stop and think.

  • Favourite cuisine?

Indian/Pakistani of course!  Can’t beat a good curry.

  1. What would you sing at Karaoke night?

Anything by Wham … actually pretty much anything, except that “sing” is not how others would describe it!