Rachel Burnett
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Rachel Burnett 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.[1] During this time she studied law via distance learning[1] 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.[2]
She was awarded an Honorary degree of Doctor of Technology by Southampton Solent University.