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LegalWomen Events
14th December 2022 London
We will celebrate 100 years of women in the legal profession with Lubna Shuja, President of The Law Society of England & Wales
Lubna Shuja is the seventh woman President and makes history as the first Muslim and Asian person to take this position. To celebrate the centenary of the admission of women to the legal profession in England and Wales, Lubna will talk with Coral Hill, founder of Legal Women, about the extraordinary changes which took place only 100 years ago, how far we've come and the future.
This event will be followed by a food and drinks reception. Many thanks to Macfarlanes for hosting.
26th October Legal Women and the Law Society of Scotland present…
The Future of Hybrid Working - on Microsoft Teams
14 September 2021
Indivisible, Radically Rethinking Inclusion for Sustainable Business Results, co-hosted by SEAL and Legal Women
Join us in conversation with the authors of INdivisible, a top pick on Harvard
Business School Faculty’s Summer 2021 reading list and featured in Forbes and the Financial Times. The interactive discussion will focus on driving inclusion systemically, tangible results, and practical steps for everyone to take.
TEDX Talks, Inspiring talks from UK lawyers, Dana Denis Smith
Driving innovation in the legal sector through purpose and social impact; relentless champion for women in law and a more equal legal profession; CEO, Obelisk Support, Founder, First 100 Years; Trustee, Spark21
Youtube Webinars Sally Penni
Sally Penni MBE is a barrister at Kenworthy’s Chambers, Manchester, whose practice includes Criminal and Employment Law. Sally is a Bencher at the Honorable Society of Gray’s Inn; Founder of Women in the Law UK and regular broadcaster of the highly acclaimed podcast talking law which has over 44k listeners. She interviews distinguished leaders from law.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhTQGOjOol8OXcaq5VPD4w
International Webinars Seodi White
Seodi White is a social development lawyer, socio-legal researcher and writer on women's human rights. As an African feminist and Director of Women and the Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust (WLSA Malawi), she has been influential in achieving ground-breaking law reform to protect women's rights, and in promoting women's access to justice in Malawi and throughout Southern Africa.
LegalWomen Webinars
Online Monday 23 January 2023
How to build a profile and network in 2023
Knowing where to start with marketing and business development can be overwhelming. This presentation aims to show you how you can build a profile within your peers and target client group without exhausting yourself. We will cover:
- What is a personal brand and do you need one
- The difference between marketing and business development
- Various types of marketing and BD
- Importance of consistency
- Choosing your strategy
- Working smarter not harder: squeezing every last piece of drop out of everything you do
The presentation will last for 30 minutes followed by questions and discussions.
Our presenter is Eileen Donaghey, a legal marketing and business development specialist. Eileen is known for her excellence in social media and regularly trains firms on how to improve their own business development.
Registration is essential, please sign up and register here.
Career agility. How to future-proof your career in uncertain times.
An interactive 1-hour careers webinar from Rachel Brushfield, founder of EnergiseLegal sharing insights, practical tips and examples to future-proof your career and become more ‘career agile’.
We live in a ‘V.U.C.A. world’ – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. This is challenging, especially for lawyers who are trained to be experts in risk! Attend this webinar and ensure that you are on the ‘front foot’ not the ‘back foot’ and stay in the driving seat of your career.
About your webinar host
Rachel Brushfield, ‘The Talent Liberator’, founded EnergiseLegal in 1996. An experienced career strategist and coach, she specialises in unfulfilled lawyers who don’t like marketing themselves. Her career heritage was in brand strategy, marketing and innovation, and she shares ideas to help her clients to expertly market themselves. Rachel is a published author in multiple topics including career management, marketing yourself, talent management and professional development for the Law Society and Globe/IBA. Rachel helps her clients to gain an uplifting breakthrough at major career crossroads, with portfolio careers, personal branding and marketing yourself specialisms. She co-runs a network PWHub - Inspiring Professional Women for senior women all sectors.
Rachel Brushfield
https://www.linkedin.com/in/energiseliberateyourtalent/
Tuesday 17 January 2023 Zoom
FOR ALL LEGAL WOMEN WORKING IN LAW
Online March 2023
Legal Women partnered with Hill Dickinson to celebrate International Women’s Day 2023.
Coral Hill discussing the theme of #EmbraceEquity with Jane Eme-Powe, Jonathan Andrews and Lesley Wan.
Lisbon September 2023
Women Leaders in Law September 23
Coral Hill, founder of Legal Women, delighted to speak at this conference in Lisbon. If you would like to find out more about the event, it will be reported in the November issue of Legal Women.
Wednesday 6th December 2023 (Interactive)
Legal Women are delighted to work in partnership with LexisNexis to offer a lunchtime interactive talk:
‘Business of law: Creating a personal brand on social media’
A LinkedIn profile is your shop window. It is the first place someone will go when wanting to research you or find someone with your skills. A small amount of time invested in a LinkedIn profile can reap significant reward. It should not be a CV. It needs to be a compelling story that explains why people should want to get to know you. The module looks at LinkedIn profiles and guides the user through creating a compelling and interesting page. The session lasts approximately 60 mins and hands on action is encouraged during the training.
Registration is essential sign up here for free
Belfast 5th March
International Women's Day with Legal Women UK in Northern Ireland
Legal Women are delighted to work again with The Law Society of Northern Ireland to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024.
Registration is essential, please sign up and register here.
This event is sponsored by, Caldwell & Robinson and Donaghey & Chance
Edinburgh 20th March
Inspire Inclusion – in conversation with The Right Hon Lady Dorrian | Law Society of Scotland (lawscot.org.uk)
Inspire Inclusion is the theme for the 2024 International Women’s Day. In collaboration with LegalWomen magazine, we are delighted to mark this event with a lunchtime reception with The Right Hon Lady Dorrian.
Registration is essential, please sign up and register here.
This event is sponsored by,The Law Society of Scotland and Donaghey & Chance
London 12th March
Emily Thornberry MP Shadow Attorney General
Legal Women and Norton Rose Fulbright are delighted to mark International Women's Day 2024 by hearing from Emily Thornberry MP, one of the longest continually serving members of the shadow cabinet, who has held the role of Shadow Attorney General since November 2021.
Registration is essential, please sign up and register here.
This event is sponsored by, Norton Rose Fulbright, Radcliffe Chambers and Donaghey & Chance
Monday 15th April 12.30
How to Create a Business Development Plan as a Lawyer
The webinar will be introduced by Coral Hill, Editor of Legal Women magazine and presented by Eileen Donaghey, Founder of Donaghey & Chance.
Donaghey & Chance is a boutique business development and marketing consultancy. Our speciality is training junior lawyers to improve their business development skills. Eileen has over 15 years’ experience of working in the marketing and business development world, eight of those within the legal sector and coming on to six years of running her own business.
The webinar will be interactive with an opportunity to send in questions in advance, polls during the webinar and 15 minutes of question time at the end. If you’ve always had questions about marketing and business development, this is your opportunity to ask.
Participation is encouraged and everyone who turns up live, will be entered into a draw to win a free one-to-one session with Eileen Donaghey.
Places are limited so registration is essential: https://tinyurl.com/2p9j5waw
Legal Women and Women in Law foundation join forces!
We are very pleased to announce a strategic collaboration between Legal Women and Women in Law Foundation. We will jointly implement projects to support women lawyers in the international environment through educational activities and joint events.
Who we are?
Legal Women is for everyone working in law, regardless of gender or type of work. It provides clear information on gender parity and shares ideas for real change in leadership and practice.
The Women in Law Foundation is changing the status quo in the legal industry. We give tools, show best practices, educate and change the Polish legal market, prioritizing new technologies.
As part of the Women in Law initiative, we organize periodic meetings and workshops where we meet to develop new ideas and find inspiration for new activities, often beyond the standard. We are keen to ensure that participants have the opportunity to take part in creating a practical strategy for promoting diversity and gaining new skills needed to function successfully in the new reality.
Who's behind it?
Coral Hill qualified as a solicitor, initially working in litigation, before she moved to the legal education and publishing sectors. Her current key roles are Editor-in-Chief of Legal Women magazine (founder) and Non- Executive Director for Nelson College London. She is a member of The Law Society of England & Wales International Women's Group; Chair of the Equality Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Committee for the City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society, London, member of the Equality Commission of La Fédération des Barreaux d'Europe (FBE).
Coral Hill has been active for many years in gender parity initiatives and employment practices in the University and professional sector and is a regular public speaker on these topics. She was the Chair of the Association of Women Solicitors, London, in 2015 before founding the Legal Women platform in 2020.
Kamila Kurkowska content manager of the course , "LegalTech and Innovation in the Legal Industry" at SWPS University and lecturer in the course "Legal Design Thinking". International expert in innovation, communication, marketing, diversity and new technologies in the legal industry.
President and founder of the Women in Law Foundation.
Speaker and lecturer at trainings for the local bar of attorneys.
Mentor for women lawyers. She has many years of experience gained at Deloitte, Harvard Business Review and RSM Poland. Founder and partner in two startups Legaltech. Ambassador for Poland of the European Legal Tech Association (2020-22), nominated for the European Women in Legal Tech award, mentor and judge at the Global Legal Hackathon 2020 - 2022 and Hack4Law.
A graduate of Stanford University in California.