The Association Of Women Solicitors — Essential For Success
AWS London would like to express their heartiest congratulations to Christl Hughes, MBE for services to equality and charity. As a previous Chair of AWS National and an integral part of the current AWS committee, Christl has been forwarding the cause of equality in the law for many years. She is a shining example of…
As we approach the anniversary of 100 years of women working within the law, AWS London has, in honour of the occasion, produced a special “bumper” edition of our newsletter.
Click HERE to download and read.
Following the success of the Law Society’s round table initiative, lead by the previous Law Society President (and AWSL AGM speaker!) Christina Blacklaws, the Law Society is now working on developing further initiatives to support women lawyers in different jurisdictions. To assist them in developing their toolkit, the Law Society and Bates Wells have produced…
As an organisation for women solicitors we are of course following the “Freshfields” case and have so far commented as follows: We welcome the fact that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has taken the allegations of person A seriously and the Tribunal has found that Mr Beckwith had breached SRA principles 2 and 6 in that…
The Fawcett Society is hosting an event to coincide with Equal Pay Day aimed at women getting the best out of their workplace in terms of negotiating salary and tackling equal pay issues. Sign up here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/equal-pay-know-your-worth-tickets-60810433644
Congratulations to AWS London member Madeleine Heggs in appearing in the First 100 Years Project’s latest video. Follow the link HERE to hear Madeline’s story.
Come to Parliament on 13 May and join the Association of Women Solicitors London and 50:50 Parliament for an inspirational evening being hosted by Rosie Duffield MP to celebrate one hundred years of women in the law. Sign up here!
AWS are pleased to present our first newsletter of 2019.
AWS London Newsletter – March 2019
We hope you enjoy it and if you have any ideas for articles please feel free to email our Editor-in-Chief, Eunice Shang-Simpson on awslondon1@gmail.com.
AWS gave a response to an article published in the Law Gazette last week. You can see the response here. The original article expresses the opinion (and statistics) that women are less likely to consider a media profile as important to ‘credentialise’ themselves. The belief that women are sometimes more reticent than men to put themselves…
Where: The Law Society When: 10-5pm, 8th March 2019 Would you like to become a part of the First 100 Years archive in their new photography project? First 100 Years have been busy documenting the last 100 years of women in law through our digital museum and video biographies. But as part of our centenary celebrations we want…
