West End firm gets only all-female leadership team in top 100 as founding partner steps down
West End firm Forsters is to gain a new managing partner, with the incumbent of 21 years stepping down.
The in-house legal teams with the best (and worst) gender balance
The majority of in-house lawyers working in the 100 largest companies in the current FTSE350 are female, new data from The Lawyer has revealed, with a gender split of 59 per cent to 41 per cent in favour of women across the group’s biggest businesses. But despite this, the majority of lawyers filling the most […]
Not quite a gender crisis, but there are a lot of angry female barristers out there – and with good reason
The poor pipeline of female employment silk applications isn’t due to shyness or lack of ability; it’s structural.
The long read: How gendered instructions at the employment Bar are scuppering female barristers’ ambitions for silk
Is the system conspiring against female barristers? We weigh up the evidence, using data on cases at both the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Court of Appeal
Women Against Adversity: From the rules of war to the rule of law
Aged six, Bosnian-born King & Spalding associate Ema Vidak Gojkovic was sent to a refugee camp in Croatia: “It did not dampen my desire to succeed.”
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Women Against Adversity: “I was knocked back time and time again”
DWF real estate partner Catherine Haslam has three pieces of advice for young women who are struggling to start their legal career:
Slaughters among nine new firms signed up to Reignite scheme bringing career-break women back to City
Nine more firms have signed up to the Reignite Academy, the initiative that aims to put lawyers who have taken a career break back on the City partnership track. The Academy was founded by Lisa Unwin, Melinda Wallman and Stephanie Dillon and its launch was first revealed by The Lawyer in September 2018, when six […]
Women Against Adversity: Women in Afghanistan have few rights – that’s why I chose a legal career after coming to the UK
“While considering career options I was told that a career in law was unsuitable, due to my ethnicity,” says Birketts paralegal Hameeda Hussani.
Women Against Adversity: from PTSD after an Afghan tour of duty to City law with CMS
CMS tech associate Katherine (Katia) Ramo: “At the most vulnerable time, I changed not only my career but my whole environment.”
Women Against Adversity: from Iraqi refugee to Brick Court barrister
In the first in a series of profiles of women who have faced great adversity in their journey to the legal profession, barrister Zahra Al-Rikabi shares her story.
The JLD blog: Mind the gap – 100 years of women in law
As a female junior solicitor it is strange to think that 2019 will mark 100 years since women were first allowed to practice law, by the introduction of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Just six years before that, in the famous case of Bebb v The Law Society [1914] 1 Ch 286, the Court […]
Ten career-break lawyers welcomed back to the City as part of first Reignite Academy cohort
The Reignite Academy, a programme aimed at bringing former City lawyers who have been out of the workplace back into the fold, has finalised its first intake, with 10 women signing on to work across four different firms. The women have a diverse range of experiences and range from those who have taken a complete […]