The Lawyer
The total fee income generated by the UK’s 50-largest firms hit a new record in 2022/23, despite many firms conceding that the trading conditions during the year were among the most challenging they have ever faced. The top 50 firms ranked by global revenue generated a total of £30.8bn last year, up by 8 per […]
Revenue is up, profit is down as the top 50 continues to grow in spite of a challenging market.
Matt Wort, senior partner at Anthony Collins, discusses the importance of firms being held to these rigorous standards and why only 2.5 per cent of the top 200 UK law firms are currently accredited.
The LGBTQ+ community has marched long and hard to promote inclusion, awareness and acceptance. It strikes me, however, that the corporate world has reached the final frontier, and it will take sustained determination and willing participants to finish the journey: LGBTQ+ leadership and smash the pink ceiling. Think for a moment about how many positions […]
I wasn’t much for Pride when I first came out. My understanding was that you came out, people accepted it (or didn’t), you accepted that and then you got on with stuff as normal. It was a few straight friends from university who introduced me to Pride. They lived in Brighton and had grown up […]
One of the many things which has changed for the better in the legal profession since I became an articled clerk in September 1989 is its attitude towards LGBTQ solicitors. I was very clear when I started my legal career that being gay (or at least coming out to the firm and colleagues) would not […]
There is a rather big word that our friends in the Diversity & Inclusivity (D&I) teams have in their lexicon which is “intersectionality”. I am not sure anyone really understands what it means. Is it about gender, sexuality, race, religion, social class and/or disabilities? It is supposed to acknowledge all the differences between us which […]
On 25 June last year, the unthinkable happened. Tragedy struck in what should have been a weekend of celebration. Two people were shot and killed at the heart of the Oslo Pride celebrations. Some of my colleagues were moving in London pub circles, some of them know people who were directly affected, and some of […]
How many times have you heard a member of the LGBTQIA+ community share that they have hidden part of their personal lives during their career? Yet, even once they have come out of the closet, it feels as if the door slams shut again with each new job, position, colleague… At the start of my […]
Despite the Disabilities Discrimination Act being around for over 25 years, disability is one of the ‘last taboos’ which needs to be tackled for true inclusivity in the legal sector. Former global managing partner at Clifford Chance Matthew Layton became an advocate for disability inclusion in the legal sector in the latter part of his […]
Why is Pride month important? Its value is not so much about celebration in my view, but creating a point in time to remind everyone why we are discussing these issues. The truth is that, whatever we might think from the comfort of Western Europe, freedom to identify openly in the workplace as LGBTQ+ is […]
Angeli Arora moved to South Africa and started an Africa-focused PE practice from scratch with no contacts or experience in the market.