Ethnic minority lawyers: Recent Episodes
The Law Society
This podcast series looks at themes of interest to black and minority ethnic (BAME) solicitors. Members of our Ethnic Minority Lawyers Division share their thoughts and opinions on a range of topical issues.
I. Stephanie Boyce, the first Black president of the Law Society of England and Wales, and Inez Brown, the first Black president of Birmingham Law Society, join us for an inspirational, candid and insightful discussion to mark Black History Month 2021.
In this podcast, our Ethnic Minority Lawyers Division ask the newly appointed Law Society president, I. Stephanie Boyce about her career journey, her ambitions for her presidency and her aspirations for diversity and inclusion within the profession.
Speakers
I. Stephanie Boyce
I. Stephanie Boyce took office as deputy vice-president, became vice-president in 2020 and has recently been appointed president of the Law Society of England and Wales in March 2021.
Susanta Banerjee
Susanta Banerjee is a director at SKB Legal, and a member of the Ethnic Minority Lawyers division.
In this podcast, we invite two of our new social mobility ambassadors and an awardee of our Diversity Access Scheme to discuss the value of diverse routes to reaching a career in law.
Umar Kankiya and Elizabeth Rimmer discuss the challenges faced by Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in talking openly about their mental health and the specific challenges faced by these groups in the context of wellbeing.
In the build up to Black History Month, we hear the thoughts of one of the speakers at our Black History Month inspiration evening on 4 October.
The theme for the event is “Past, present and future” and we’re delighted to interview in this podcast HH Judge Barbara Mensah who was a guest speaker at the very first Black History Month event in 2009.
Jerry Garvey sat down with Siddique Patel to discuss the Register Our Marriage campaign, which encourages couples to legally register their faith marriages.
Leena Savjani, partner at Irwin Mitchell, talks about her journey to partnership and explores whether there is room at the top for BAME lawyers.
Leena Savjani, partner at Irwin Mitchell, draws attention to the importance of role models in aspiring and inspiring BAME people to achieve their goals.
Marcia Longdon, partner at Kingsley Napley LLP, talks about her journey to partnership and explores whether there is room at the top for BAME lawyers.
BAME lawyers make up 16.5% of practising solicitors. One way of highlighting the positive contribution ethnic minority lawyers make to the profession is through celebrating diversity in the legal calendar.
Fitting into a new workplace culture can be challenging. That challenge is magnified if you are from a different ethnic background. Marcia Longdon, partner at Kingsley Napley LLP, looks at what it means to be authentic and what firms can do to create an environment conducive to this.
Fitting into a new workplace culture can be challenging. That challenge is magnified if you are from a different ethnic background. Ruihua Wang, in-house counsel at TradeWeb, explores why BAME women have different experiences to their white women peers.
Umar Kankiya, head of mental health at Sternberg Reed, draws attention to the importance of role models in aspiring and inspiring BAME people to achieve their goals.