Diversity and inclusion
Asia Pacific deputy editor Andrea de Palatis speaks to leading partners on mentoring, flexible working, unconscious bias, and how to break Big Law’s glass ceiling
For many women lawyers, a long-term career at the top level of Big Law seems just out of reach. Even in 2019, the centenary year of women being allowed entry to the profession in the UK, it is still widely believed that women cannot ‘have it all’ and must eventually choose between having a family …
Continue reading “The battle for diversity is far from won”
Diversity and inclusion
MinterEllisonRuddWatts’ Sarah Sinclair talks to Asia Pacific editor John van der Luit-Drummond about gender diversity and wellbeing in New Zealand’s legal market
Equality and wellbeing in the workplace – including in the legal profession – is increasingly under the spotlight around the world. According to the latest statistics, from the New Zealand Law Society, women account for close to 70% of law graduates. Of the 13,103 lawyers currently practising in the country, 6,553 are women and 6,550 …
Continue reading “Want change? Then start something different”
Diversity and inclusion
Senior researcher Dr Dana Ferchland crunches the numbers and asks why the representation of female lawyers at partnership level is so stubbornly low
Shortly after joining The Legal 500, I attended a training session at Stephenson Harwood in London. Such sessions are organised by law firms to explain the minutiae of a specific topic and help us in our research. Occasionally, drinks and nibbles follow, giving researchers and lawyers an opportunity to mingle, exchange views on the legal …
Continue reading “Germany’s women in law: where are all the leaders?”
Diversity and Inclusion
UK Solicitors editor Georgina Stanley explains why The Legal 500 will be playing its role in addressing the lack of diversity within the legal sector
Rankings, by definition, are never going to please everyone (nor should they). But, as the new UK editor of The Legal 500, there’s one issue in particular that I see as an area to progress: diversity. Women make up more than half of those entering the profession, but in general far less than 30% of …
Continue reading “We’ll be championing women but we need your help”
Diversity and inclusion
CEO Obelisk Support and former Linklaters lawyer, Dana Denis-Smith who founded the First 100 Years
project, explains what inspired her to celebrate the
journey of women in law and why law firms must do
better to right the scales of equality.
A wonderful group image captured my imagination in November 2013 – it was a photograph of the partners of City law firm Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills), dating from 1982, marking the firm’s centenary at Grocer’s Hall in London. In the middle of the group of 50 or so men, there was a blue-clad …
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Diversity and Inclusion
Two thirds of UK adults feel they have nobody to talk to about their problems, a survey by mental health campaign Time to Change found earlier this year. More and more lawyers are now willing to come forward to ask for help, and law firms must be there to provide it, writes John van der Luit-Drummond
Two thirds of UK adults feel they have nobody to talk to about their problems, a survey by mental health campaign Time to Change found earlier this year. More than a third of 2,500 people said they could never find the right time to raise their problems with others; 28% said they could not find …
Continue reading “Lawyers, it’s #TimeToTalk about your mental health”
