Small handwriting and large vocabulary were key to success in role
A top ESG champion is to leave Legal Cheek.
Aishah Hussain only used one sheet of paper during her entire five and a half year tenure at the publication thanks to her commitment to environmental, social and governance causes. She also got by with a laptop that had been broken for several years thanks to a series of innovative fixes she deployed.
The secret to her success? Incredibly small handwriting and an ability to write copy that avoided certain letters which no longer worked on her keyboard. Hussain explains:
“It began with a Gantt chart which I drew back in 2018. It left a lot of space on the piece of paper, which I gradually filled over a number of years. There remains a final quadrant of space which I’m looking to handover to my successor.”
As for the keyboard, she adds: “It’s all about word choice. It’s true it may have impacted some of my stories but there’s a climate crisis so it’s been a price worth paying.”
Hussain will be joining law.com who it’s understood will be supplying her with a new laptop.