“I didn’t grow up wanting to be a lawyer. I actually didn’t decide on pursuing a legal career until my third year in college, but by then I knew, quite specifically, that I wanted to be an employment lawyer,” says Gráinne Gleeson, head of international employment law for EMEA, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific at LinkedIn. “Being people-focused, employment law, for me, feels more meaningful than other areas of the law.