‘You don’t get a choice about whether you’re a role model’ – shifting the LGBTQ+ dial in law
Gatehouse Chambers property and probate silk Brie Stevens-Hoare KC on coming out, fitting in and how the profession needs to…
Social diversity
Big Law’s diversity stats remain uninspiring – time to revisit the problem of social mobility
As we go to press on Legal Business’ third annual ESG report, the data points gathered on firms’ ethnicity and…
Foreign giants combine to enter UK training market as radical education shake-up looms
Australia’s leading legal training outfit is to team up with a major US player to enter the UK market ahead…
In-house leaders sign letter urging law firms to ramp up diversity efforts
A group of 65 general counsel (GCs) spanning major companies from the UK and Europe has collectively signed a letter…
PRIME and the rise of the tick-box ‘solution’
The sheepish evasion now emanating from the once-lauded social mobility project PRIME is an abject lesson in what ethically ails…
Whatever happened to PRIME? – Drift sets in for once lauded diversity project
Thomas Alan assesses the initially lauded, now forgotten social inclusion initiative ‘Forgive my ignorance, can you tell me what you…
Comment: PRIME and the rise of law’s tick-box diversity ‘solution’
The sheepish evasion now emanating from the once-lauded social mobility project PRIME is an abject lesson in what ethically ails…
The future is female – women lawyers outnumber men in UK as the in-house boom continues
In a landmark for the legal industry that nevertheless raises some uncomfortable truths, the number of working female solicitors in…
Comment: The answer to law firms’ social ills is not another league table
Have we reached peak aspirational employer league table yet? From the perspective of the legal industry we certainly should have,…
Answer to law firms’ social ills is not another league table
Have we reached peak aspirational employer league table yet? From the perspective of the legal industry we certainly should have,…
Legal profession lacks diversity in partnership despite changing demographic of profession
The number of female practice certificate (PC) holders increased yet again by 3% to 67,393 from 65,147 as at July…
Comment: Fieldfisher’s Chissick on why real change on diversity needs leadership in law
‘Did you see the game at the weekend?’ is the type of question I am often asked at events. I…
Myths and Millennials – the facts, fiction and hard realities of leading junior lawyers
Law firms are increasingly obsessed with the challenge of engaging their Millennial associates. Legal Business separates buzzword from BS Just…
Barclays to offer 80 work experience places as high street bank mulls apprenticeship scheme
Barclays’ in-house legal team is to offer around 80 work experience placements to students from socio-economic groups under-represented in the…