Vertex Chambers

Vertex Chambers recognises the lack of female representation in legal practice. Hence, our firm strives to ensure a safe and conducive environment for our female associates, pupils and interns. Our objective is to provide more opportunities to young female law graduates who would otherwise reconsider joining legal practice due to a poor support system. If a female employee has to work long hours to meet a deadline, our firm ensures that there is a safe mode of transportation for such employee to go home. Besides receiving the legally sanctioned maternity leave, our employees who are young mums have the option to take a longer paid sabbatical or work part-time to enable better work-life balance. One of the founding partners of Vertex Chambers, Barrister Sajeda Farisa Kabir currently serves as the Sexual Harassment, Safeguarding and External Relations Consultant at a leading NGO called SAJIDA Foundation and also sits as the Chairman of their Sexual Harassment Redressal Committee. She has also served as the Chairman of the Sexual Harassment Redressal Committee for BRAC, world’s largest NGO, for the period of 2015 to 2018. Thus, our approach to creating a female friendly work environment is to follow a top down structure.