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Nov 7, 2024 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Cameron Purse |Amy Ulliott
Almost 1,200 law firms have secured spots in the new Legal 500 UK rankings, which have been revealed after months of research into the legal markets up and down the country. The rankings, which are based on extensive analysis of the legal markets across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, have been put together based on the insight gained from rankings submissions, thousands of interviews with firms, and new record levels of feedback from their clients.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Amy Ulliott
Travers Smith partner and senior LGBTQ+ champion Daniel Gerring discusses with Legal Business the importance for law firms to avoid complacency and how they should continue to persevere with LGBTQ+ inclusion. What was your personal journey regarding coming out in the profession? Like a lot of young people starting work, I went back into the closet. After being out at university and in law school, I felt that I wanted to test the water at work before deciding what to do.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Amy Ulliott
Hogan Lovells commercial litigator and Legally Lesbians initiative founder Jacqui Rhule-Dagher talks coming out, representation, and the importance of intersectionality. When did you come out professionally, and how easy did you find it? I started as a paralegal about a decade ago, and I was very much in the closet. I remember attending my firm’s annual Pride Lunch under the guise of being an ally.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Amy Ulliott
Legal Business
Oscar Davies, winner of the LGBTQ+ Champion of the Year Award at the Legal 500 UK ESG Awards, talks to Legal Business about being a prominent non-binary figure in the legal profession
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Amy Ulliott
Pride Month is here again; corporate social media profiles are awash with the colours of LGBTQ+ pride, drag queens are braving office lighting for bingo events, and rainbow flags, lanyards and badges are all over the City.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Marie Johansen Nordland |Amy Ulliott
With soaring interest rates, global instability, as well as political and economic insecurity both at home and abroad, the beginning of 2023 was a cautious and uncertain time for law firms across the Nordic region, particularly given the tumultuous year that was 2022.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Amy Ulliott |Ben Wheway
Back in the spring, Legal Business asked whether a professional social media presence is now a ‘must-have’ for the modern lawyer, in a feature which also acknowledged that ‘what is trending one week can be quickly forgotten the next’. And while the post-Covid return to the office has since gathered pace, lawyers’ love for LinkedIn shows no sign of slowing up.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Amy Ulliott
Emma Lilley, UK and Ireland head of legal at HR and payroll management company SD Worx, has built an audience of over 10,000 followers on Instagram, and leveraged that platform to successfully lobby the Law Society to hold its first-ever regional admissions ceremony in LeedsWhat drew you to using social media as a tool in your career and why Instagram specifically? It started about four years ago because I was fed up and wanted to challenge the information that was out there about in-house.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Amy Ulliott
After almost a decade at Irwin Mitchell, Chrissie Wolfe set up on her own in 2017, using social media to build her a successful business on the back of the connections gained through various online platformsWhat made you decide that social media was a good tool to use for your career? It all evolved from YouTube originally where I was mentoring law students who were trying to break into the sector and I ran out of hours in the day for physical mentees.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
legalbusiness.co.uk | Amy Ulliott
A former barrister at both DAC Beachcroft and DWF, where he led the advocacy unit, Sahar Farooqi now has more than 40,000 followers on Linkedin, an audience which has afforded him numerous networking opportunities onlineWhy did you decide to use social media as a tool and what is it about social media, and LinkedIn specifically, that you’ve found useful?
