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April 2022
The 2021 UK Diversity Legal Awards
Last night, the winners of the 2021 UK Diversity Legal Awards were announced! More than 300 guests turned out to see the winners unveiled at a glittering ceremony held at the Plaisterers’ Hall, One London Wall to celebrate exceptional achievement, individuals and teams who are making a difference. These exciting Awards were hosted by BBC correspondent, Nancy Kacungira. After what has been a challenging couple of years, it was great to be able to gather and celebrate diversity in all its…
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BSN/Halo/Linklaters – Halo Code: Building a future without hair discrimination | 26 July 5.30pm
Share this event On LinkedIn | On Twitter | On Instagram Following our campaign in March 2021 calling on law firms and legal service providers to adopt the Halo Code, we are delighted to be collaborating with the Halo Collective and global law firm Linklaters to bring you this informative seminar 'Halo Code: Building a future without hair discrimination'. Whilst the Equality Act 2010 made race-based hair discrimination illegal, it still happens both overtly and covertly in schools and workplaces and creates undue pressures for…
Find out more »BSN Grassroots Insiders: Law Practice Area Series | Life as an Immigration and Asylum Lawyer
Are you an aspiring lawyer? Do you want to explore the various sectors and career paths within law? Do you want to hear from the insiders, shedding light on their chosen practice areas? BSN Grassroots is delighted to present our third event in the Insiders series is ‘Life as an Immigration & Asylum Lawyer.’ We are going to be joined by BSN director and Co-Founder, Cordella Bart- Stewart who is an Immigration & Asylum Tribunal Judge and Grace Brown, Barrister…
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BSN City Group and Midlands – Imposter Syndrome: Finding your power with Caroline Flanagan | Thursday 29 April 2021, 6-7pm
Share this event On LinkedIn | On Twitter | On Instagram BSN City Group and Midlands are excited to invite you to the first event in our new series on Authenticity entitled Imposter Syndrome: Finding your power with Caroline Flanagan, author of Be The First, international speaker and certified coach. Against the odds, Caroline made it from humble beginnings in Birmingham to Cambridge University, and then to the City as a finance lawyer at a magic circle firm. Caroline became familiar with being one of, if not the only, Black…
Find out more »BSN Hot Topics: Upholding professional standards | Tue 20 April 2021 @ 6pm
In 2014, Professor Gus John published the Independent Comparative Case Review looking at fairness in the SRA’s enforcement processes and made several recommendations. In December 2020, the SRA for the first time since 2014, reported on the diversity characteristics of the people involved in the enforcement processes. As with all previous external reports, the SRA confirm that there is still overrepresentation of people from Black and Asian backgrounds throughout the SRA enforcement processes. Join us on 20 April as Jane Malcolm and…
Find out more »BSN Grassroots Insiders: Law Practice Area Series | Life as a Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyer
Are you an aspiring lawyer? Do you want to explore the various sectors and career paths within law? Do you want to hear from the insiders, shedding light on their chosen practice areas? BSN Grassroots’ ‘Insider: Law Practice Areas’ series showcases legal professionals who have developed their practices across a range of areas, including crime, restructuring and insolvency, immigration and asylum, commercial litigation, family and banking and finance. This series is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the range…
Find out more »March 2021
Webinar: The SRA’s transparency rules – practical tips to help you comply | 24 March 2021
Paul O’Hara, Regulatory Manager, SRA, Natalie Darby, Policy Manager, SRA Are you confident you are fully complying with the SRA's transparency rules on price, service and protections? The SRA is regularly checking law firms’ websites. Many firms are complying, but unfortunately some aren't and the SRA has had to take regulatory action. The SRA wants to provide support to help you fully comply. Targeted at smaller firms, join the SRA for this free webinar and hear: a reminder of the…
Find out more »BSN/Facebook: Tech Career Experiences Through a Legal Lens, Weds 3 March @ 6pm
You are invited to join us on Wednesday 3 March 2021 at 6pm in partnership with Facebook as we go behind the scenes with Anna Benckert, VP, Head of Legal, EMEA at Facebook who will host a panel discussion with Barry Fishley, Partner and Head of the Technology and IP Transactions Practice in London, Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP, Geofrey Banzi, Legal Technologist, KPMG and Nicolette Myrie, Data Protection Counsel, Facebook to discuss and share experiences within private practice and…
Find out more »February 2021
Linklaters: Access to Justice – An evening with Alexandra Wilson
Join the Linklaters Dispute Resolution practice for our first webinar of 2021! We are excited to move to the next stage of our exploration of the themes of identity and race in the workplace: going beyond the stories and committing to meaningful actions. Wednesday 24 February 2021 17:00 – 18:00 (GMT) | 12:00 – 13:00 (EST) | 11:00 – 12:00 (CST) Guest Speaker: Alexandra Wilson Barrister, Author and Campaigner Alexandra Wilson is a barrister specialising in criminal and family law…
Find out more »February 2020
25 Bedford Row: Care before Criminalisation Symposium – 6 Feb 2020, Conway Hall, Holborn
BSN is proud to support 25 Bedford Row's upcoming Symposium entitled 'Care before Criminalisation' on 6 February 2020 at Conway Hall, Holborn with guest speakers David Lammy MP, John Carnochan, Lib Peck, Arlette Piercy and chaired by Laurie-Anne Power, recent winner of the UKDLA BSN Lawyer of the Year (Chambers) Award! 25 Bedford Row share the societal concern that merely prosecuting knife crime is not enough. They are committed to helping to find ways to prevent knife crime at source.…
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