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The shortlist for the 2025 Women and Diversity in Law Awards is unveiled today, featuring 170 individuals dedicated to ensuring the UK legal profession more closely reflects the society in which it operates.
The awards, which are hosted by The Global Legal Post, honour outstanding women leaders and practitioners as well as the legal teams and businesses working to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I).
Showcase categories include Woman of the Year, Law Firm Leader of the Year, DE&I Champion of the Year, Mentor of the Year and Unsung Hero – among the individual categories – as well as an array of team awards.
The shortlist has been chosen from 350 entries and features a wide variety of law firms including Birketts, Brown Rudnick, Cooley, Clyde & Co, Fox Williams, Freshfields, Quastels, RPC and Shakespeare Martineau among many others.
Chambers in the roster include Fountain Court Chambers, Goldsmith Chambers and 39 Essex Court, while individuals and teams have been fielded by companies including E.ON, Flood Re and ITN.
The awards are divided into three sections. In the first half, Outstanding Women Leaders and Outstanding Women Practitioners will be recognised. The second half addresses diversity more broadly, seeking to highlight the stand-out initiatives and individuals across its different strands.
Last year’s awards in March featured 350 finalists, awards judges and other legal professionals, and were hosted by British actress Natalie Gumede.
Bar Council vice chair Barbara Mills KC was the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, while Fieldfisher director Caron Heyes was named Woman of the Year, for her clinical negligence work supporting clients with injury-acquired learning difficulties, who often face unequal healthcare outcomes.
Team awards winners included Farrer & Co, which lifted the Age and Life Stage Initiative of the Year award for its menopause support initiative, created in response to a significant lack of awareness and understanding about menopause issues among lawyers, and the International Bar Association, which scooped the Gender Equality Initiative of the Year award for its hugely ambitious nine-year global project to uncover the root-causes of gender disparity at senior levels of the legal profession.
For a third year, mental health charity LawCare is confirmed as the awards’ official charity, with its chief executive, Elizabeth Rimmer, joining the judging panel.
New judges this year include Kate Richardson-Moore, director, diversity and talent, Linklaters, Lisa Ardley-Price, global co-chair of NatWest’s gender network, and Jane Livesey, an ADHD empowerment coach and neuro-inclusive transformation specialist.
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