Tag: Diversity
Taking the fear out of being different at the bar
Hardwicke’s Brie Stevens-Hoare QC on why she’s backing FreeBar, a new bar-wide LGBT+ initiative
Legal Cheek talks… law firms’ commitment to diversity
Genuine enthusiasm, or buying appearance?
Disability in the City: the disconnect between diversity-friendly legal recruitment and the reality on the office floor
We spoke to top lawyer Robert Hunter, himself profoundly deaf, about his charity City Disabilities
Supreme Court on tour: Lord Neuberger wants justices to hear appeals in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast
Apparently “steps are being taken to achieve this”
City law diversity scheme brings teachers on board in bid to get closer to students
Work experience initiative PRIME -- which is backed by 80 top firms -- wants more ongoing contact with alumni
A partner’s advice to aspiring female lawyers
Shearman & Sterling partner Susanna Charlwood on why her gender has never held her back
I have a learning difficulty and am gay – will I succeed at the bar?
The legal profession and its true approach to diversity
Research: England and Wales has one of the most male-dominated judiciaries in Europe
But our Supreme Court judges are among the best paid
The quest to recruit more graduates like me
New PRIME chair reached top of Hogan Lovells the hard way
Revealed: Nearly 60% of rookie barristers did their undergraduate degree at Oxbridge
The 2016-17 Chambers Most List – released today – makes for sobering reading for wannabe lawyers at lesser unis
Already low percentage of ethnic minority judges FALLS as female numbers flatline
But there are some encouraging signs in the lower ranks
Video: How to make it as a City lawyer
Six top solicitors answer law students' questions about how they made it into the legal profession
From a small town in one of India’s poorest states to Herbert Smith Freehills
Siddhartha Shukla charts his incredible route to becoming a solicitor in London
Research: BME lawyers far less likely to become judges than white lawyers
Only 10% of BME applicants were shortlisted
History to be made as gay judge looks set to swipe Lord Denning’s old job title
Sir Terence Etherton would be the first openly gay Master of the Rolls
Judges, you need to catch up with parliament in your treatment of transgender people
Stop reminding litigants what used to be between their legs
Women partners: Eversheds smashes 25% gender diversity target as CMS and Norton Rose Fulbright eye 30%
The demographics of megafirms are changing
Why City law firms don’t need to keep in touch with work experience students
If they want to build ties, students should show some initiative and send an email
The bar launches first of its kind LGBT+ network
FreeBar aims to support sexuality and gender minority barristers through their career, and get heterosexual lawyers on board
Ethnic diversity at the bar isn’t actually that bad (but it’s not that good either)
At least people are talking about it -- unlike social-economic diversity