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Women lawyers across the globe face significant career barriers, whether unconscious bias, unequal pay, sexual harassment in the workplace and lack of support when speaking out about it, or the double burden of juggling caring responsibilities and work commitments
The impacts of COVID-19 risk turning back the clock on women’s equality: Dana Denis-Smith lays out a road to recovery
Fiona Bawdon explains why this ground‑breaking scheme is aimed at firms, as well as not-for-profit agencies
The project set up to mark the 100-year anniversary of women being able to qualify as lawyers, First 100 Years, has reported it raised more than £500,000 over five years
Black and Asian solicitors are disproportionately likely to be investigated for regulatory breaches, official figures have revealed
Forensic accounting firm Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA) is to provide pro bono services to the charity Kick It Out, English football’s equality and inclusion organisation. 
Bar chair Amanda Pinto QC has criticised ‘shocking discrepancies in pay between male and female barristers’ revealed in Bar Mutual data for the year ending 2019
Several law firms have made it into the top 75 employers in the Social Mobility Foundation’s employer index
Patrick Allen & Bahareh Amani highlight the importance of championing diversity & inclusion
A Joint Committee on Human Rights report, ‘Black people, racism and human rights’, published this week, has drawn stark conclusions on inequalities in healthcare, criminal justice, immigration and democracy
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC

Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC

Appointment of former Solicitor General bolsters corporate investigations and white collar practice

Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark

Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark

Firm strengthens international strategy with hire of global relations consultant

Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf

Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf

Partner and associate join employment practice

NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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