Diversity

50% of senior leaders in the financial and professional services sector should come from a non-professional background by 2030, the City of London’s Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce has urged in its final report.

The Law Society of England and Wales has welcomed the final report from the City of London’s Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce which outlines its five-point pathway of tangible steps for organisations in the financial and professional services sector to achieve socio-economic diversity at senior leadership level. 

The Law Society is marking Disability History Month (16 November to 16 December) by sharing stories from disabled legal professionals.

Carrie Laws explains why D/deaf awareness training should be considered a critical issue for the legal sector

Women barristers earn one third less than their male colleagues, Bar Council analysis has found.

Recruitment and retention, alongside monitoring the global political and economic situation, are the main threats facing the legal sector, according to a report launched this week at the International Bar Association (IBA) conference in Miami.

It will take more than 120 years for women, Black and Asian people to be proportionately represented within the judiciary if the current rate of progress continues.

Simon Blandy discusses the role of the regulator in increasing diversity & inclusion in the legal profession

Lawyers will focus on the theme, ‘Time for change: action not words’, as they mark this year’s Black History Month (BHM).

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has discussed how it prepared Croydon Crown Court in July 2022 to support the first deaf juror, Karen, to serve in a trial aided by British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters.