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Even working class Oxbridge graduates fail to prosper, study into socio economic diversity finds
Law Society president calls for urgent action as social mobility taskforce highlights cultural barriers to career progression for less well off
Clifford Chance hires UK inclusion leader from BBC
Nina Goswami joins Magic Circle firm after project managing BBC's award-winning 50:50 Equality Project
The Global Legal Post launches Women & Diversity in Law Awards
Awards will recognise the individuals and teams making the UK legal profession more diverse and inclusive
Diversity Lab names eight US law firms 'inclusion champions' for DEI progress
New entrants including Orrick and Morrison Foerster join returning champions Reed Smith and Morgan Lewis
Shearman & Sterling adds Meta leader as first diversity and inclusion chief
Loretta Pearce joins firm in New York following stints at Facebook parent company and Moody’s
Reed Smith launches ESG practice to advise on plethora of 'regulations, principles, initiatives and reporting standards'
New team will be led by partners from seven of the firm's 30 global locations
LGBTQ+ rights and the law – looking back and looking forward
Reform in the UK has been slow and painful, but it has happened nonetheless and it is picking up speed, writes Jessica Keal of Simkins
More than a dozen Am Law 100 firms commit to covering travel for out-of-state abortion care
Some 76 Am Law 100 firms have offices in states that have banned or restricted abortions, Above The Law research shows
Women in law don’t see pay equality happening in their working lives, UK study finds
Almost two-thirds of women say senior management at their firms aren’t prioritising gender pay
Squire Patton Boggs launches UK ESG strategy, commits to net-zero carbon emissions by 2035
US firm also pledges to introduce full supplier audit and achieve 25% women partners by 2026
Apple, Google GCs among LCLD members making public diversity pledges
Promises are part of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s Leaders at the Front campaign
Clifford Chance hires first-ever global 'head of wellbeing' from Aon in London
Charles Alberts will create and lead the firm's wellbeing strategy and consult on mental health and general staff welfare concerns
Six London law firms back creation of new black British civil rights organisation
Magic Circle firms Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters among the six
BASF announces global programme to boost diversity among its panel firm lawyers
Initiative follows similar scheme in North America that has seen a doubling of diverse relationship partners
Linklaters becomes latest UK firm to implement menopause policy
Move follows similar announcements by rivals including Freshfields and Stephenson Harwood