BSN – Mentoring Application Form
Click the link below to download the BSN Mentoring Application form. BSN – Mentoring Application Form
BSN City Group launches ‘Creating Pathways through Mentoring and Sponsorship’ programme
On Tuesday 26 July 2016, BSN City Group launched its Creating Pathways through Mentoring and Sponsorship programme at an event hosted by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. This followed a successful pilot programme in 2014/2015, aimed at providing mid-level BME lawyers with access to insights and perspectives on professional development from outside their organisations…
UK Diversity Legal Awards 2015: Winners Announced
The 2015 UK Diversity Legal Awards and BSN’s 20th Anniversary celebration took place on Tuesday 24 November 2015 at a glittering black-tie event held at the five-star Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in London. Over 200 hundred guests attended the ceremony with representation from a cross-section of firms, chambers and legal industry bodies, including the Law…
Law Society Council meeting summary: 9 December 2015
Council’s last meeting of the 2015 calendar year saw a busy programme of reports and papers. Council was glad to hear of the public launch of the Law Society’s strategy which had been signed off in October and was launched in November through a wide variety of email, web-based and social media channels as well…
About the Winners
JUDGED CATEGORIES: Category: Recruitment “Attracting Talent” WINNER One of the Hogan Lovell’s objectives is to increase the number of trainees from economically disadvantaged and black and minority ethnic backgrounds. The firm’s ‘Widening Access’ programme was conceived to help meet this target. Their Graduate Recruitment (GR) team’s Widening Access Programme has developed a range of internal…
Ethnic minority lawyers face steep challenge to reach top of ‘pyramid’
Diversity league table highlights ‘very slow pace’ in representation of gender and ethnic diversity in 10-year review Ethnic minorities in the legal profession face a difficult journey to reach the heights of the profession, according to the latest diversity league table from the Black Solicitors Network (BSN). Figures comparing demographics in law over the last…
BSN City Group chair wins equality leadership award
BSN City Group chair, Paulette Mastin, has been recognised for her work on improving diversity both within the firm where she practices, Linklaters LLP, and externally after winning the Champion and Executive Sponsor award on 6 October at the 2015 Race for Opportunity 20th Anniversary Awards Gala Dinner. Race for Opportunity (RfO) is the race…
BSN adds social mobility questions to league tables research
The Black Solicitors Network (BSN) is planning to probe law firms about the social backgrounds of their lawyers in its latest survey. The BSN will be sending out questionnaires to the UK’s top law firms and barristers’ chambers next week, inviting them to participate in the research exercise, which will be used to compile its…