Tag: Diversity
Top black journalist heckled at City law diversity event speaks out
Exclusive: Afua Hirsch says she was branded a 'fascist' by attendee, who host firm confirms was not an employee
17 City law firms pledge to ‘identify and attack’ career obstacles facing BAME lawyers
New 'data-driven' approach
Private school kids continue to dominate corporate law
'Much more work to be done', says SRA chief
Forget the glass ceiling… trans people face a ‘concrete’ one, says Manchester Met equality law prof
Lawyer Stephen Whittle shares insights into the challenges facing transgender people during House of Commons speech
How my disability sparked my entrepreneurial spirit
Yasmin Sheikh on her transition from City lawyer to diversity advocate
Without role models, LGBT+ junior lawyers risk ‘going back into the closet’
Lawyers from Hogan Lovells and Goldman Sachs on the vital role support networks play in the fight against discrimination
This is how one City law firm responds to market change
The panel, which comprised of lawyers and business services professionals, had plenty to say on topics ranging from Brexit, the economic cycle and the rise of disruptive technologies
City law diversity schemes criticised for ‘box-ticking’
Chair of high profile programme hits back with strong-worded response
Event: How to make it as a City lawyer — with Baker McKenzie, Hogan Lovells and Mayer Brown
Top lawyers join experts from BPP University Law School, NOTICED and PRIME to help prep students — for free — ahead of the training contract application deadline
‘My cerebral palsy may affect my speech and mobility, but it won’t stop me becoming a barrister’
Law graduate Daniel Holt hopes to start BPTC this September and is 'very confident' he'll secure pupillage
Disability policies are the legal profession’s disconnect
GDL student David Mant explores what firms can do to combat substantial underrepresentation of disabled lawyers
‘I’m a future trainee who is Asian and working class: This is what diversity means to me’
Shez Anjum reveals how he overcame prejudices to win 'Trainee of the Year'
David Lammy: ‘We will not see a BME Lord Chief Justice in my lifetime’
Top names from law and politics gather to discuss legal profession's diversity problem
International Women’s Day: Male and female lawyers divided over profession’s gender equality progress
Law Society plans 100 roundtables as female lawyers' centenary fast approaches
Research: Far more private school kids at corporate firms than in crime
State school educated underrepresented across the board
16 City firms make it to LGBT top 100 employer list
Legal profession most represented sector
Ex-Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger is touring non-Russell Group universities and state schools with a future CMS trainee
Exclusive: Pair seek to do good with their unlikely friendship
Lawyer turned MP David Lammy asks government to set judicial diversity targets, government says no
‘Disappointed’ politician says ‘more of the same will not work’
Four different perspectives from female lawyers about being successful on your own terms
Stories from the Women in Law Conference at Shearman & Sterling in London
‘Your role models don’t necessarily need to have the same skin colour as you, but they need to understand the importance of diversity’
Mayer Brown’s Joseph Otoo on being a black solicitor in the City
When I qualified as a solicitor some of my colleagues had never worked with a black person before, now I’m a partner
David Carter, a private equity specialist at Ashurst, shares his story