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Christopher Sykes joined Manchester Law School in January and is an alumnus of the Manchester Law School - having studied his GDL (Graduate Diploma in Law) and LPC (Legal Practice Course) at Manchester Law School many years ago. Christopher is qualified as a solicitor specialising in criminal defence, and although he no longer practices law he retains a strong interest in that area. Christopher left practice to teach law and legal skills in Spain, before co-founding a legal technology business in Hong Kong. This is what brought him into the world of ‘legaltech’. After this, he then pursued a career as a tutor, where he focused on the design and teaching of tech and innovation related programmes. Christopher now teaches digital skills and legal technology, and he supervises projects and dissertations focussing on this area. Christopher is the Programme Leader for the LLM in Legal Practice, and unit leader of Legaltech Projects on the LLB and both Professionals in Practice and Digital Lawyering on the LLM LP.