InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks

InterLaw Diversity Forum and BLAGG: An Evening with Gill...

Sun, 06 May 2012 09:58:00 -0400

InterLaw Diversity Forum and BLAGG: An Evening with Gill Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal for the Guardian on Wednesday, 16 May

Come and join the InterLaw Diversity Forum’s Women’s Initiative and the Bar Lesbian and Gay Group (BLAGG) for a joint social event for women working in the law.

We’re delighted to have a speaker for the evening: Gill Phillips, director of editorial legal services for the Guardian, who will talk about her experiences as a gay woman in the legal sector.

Please join us to hear Gill and for drinks and nibbles and a chance to meet other women working in the legal sector.

Our venue is Bridge Bar, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1R 5ET.

If interested in attending please e-mail daniel.winterfeldt@interlawdiversityforum.org.

Tickets Selling Fast InterLaw Diversity Forum Spring Carnival...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:36:00 -0400

*Tickets Selling Fast* InterLaw Diversity Forum Spring Carnival to benefit the Albert Kennedy Trust

Generously co-hosted by

Clifford Chance The Law Society CMS Cameron McKenna

Tickets are selling fast, so book now! You are cordially invited to the Club at the Ivy for the third annual InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks’ Spring Carnival to benefit the Albert Kennedy Trust (the “AKT”) and their work with homeless and at risk LGBT youth. Tickets are now onsale on the Albert Kennedy Trust website here: http://www.akt.org.uk/spring-carnival Last year you helped us raise almost £20,000 for the charity and this year we hope to raise even more. For pictures of last year’s fabulous event please visit here:http://tiny.cc/vgq7bw Generous co-hosts and sponsors are covering the all costs for the event, so all the money we raise will go directly to the AKT.

Date: Sunday, 22 April

Time: 6 pm to Late

Venue: The Club at the Ivy, 9 West Street, London, WC2H 9NE

Dress: Black Tie Glamour

Gold and Platinum tickets are now onsale on the Albert Kennedy Trust website here:http://www.akt.org.uk/spring-carnival

Platinum Tickets: Admission to the Spring Carnival, Welcome Drink, Canapés Reception, Two-Course Dinner in the Spring Carnival Supper Club (£150)

Gold Tickets: Admission to the Spring Carnival, Welcome Drink and Canapés Reception (£60)

Very limited Black Tickets with Admission to the Spring Carnival, Welcome Drink, Canapés Reception, Two-Course Dinner and Drinks in the Private Dining Room (£280). Please contact jonathan@akt.org.uk if you are interested in purchasing them.

Generously Sponsored by

Ashurst Baker & McKenzie Herbert Smith White & Case

For full details see our dedicated page here.

Exclusive Pre-Sale: Spring Carnival to Benefit the Albert...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:20:00 -0400

Exclusive Pre-Sale: Spring Carnival to Benefit the Albert Kennedy Trust (Sunday, April 22nd)

Come join us on Sunday, April 22nd for our third annual InterLaw Diversity Forum Spring Carnival to support and celebrate the work of the Albert Kennedy Trust with homeless and at risk LGBT youth. We have once again secured the exclusive Club at the Ivy as our venue.Details will be announced soon and there are lots of surprises to that will make this year’s Carnival better than ever. Pictures from last year’s extravaganza can be found here.

We are now opening our exclusive social media advance three-day booking period so contact Jonathan Penny at the AKT to pre-book your tickets now!

Gold Tickets (£60) Entry to Spring Carnival; Welcome Drink; and Canapés Reception.

Platinum Tickets (£150) Entry to Spring Carnival; Welcome Drink; Canapés Reception; Dinner in the Drawing Room (Main Course, Dessert and Coffee or Tea). Tables may be booked for groups between 2 and 8 guests.

Tickets have sold out every year so book now to ensure a spot!

If you have not done so already visit our Facebook page now and ‘like’ us, follow us on Twitter (@InterlawLGBT) or link up with us at LinkedIn.

Limited hosting and sponsorship packages are available. For details, contact Stephenward100@hotmail.com and daniel.winterfeldt@cms-cmck.com.

Save the Date: Spring Carnival to Benefit the Albert Kennedy...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:15:00 -0500

Save the Date: Spring Carnival to Benefit the Albert Kennedy Trust (Sunday, April 22nd)

Come join us on Sunday, April 22nd for our third annual InterLaw Diversity Forum Spring Carnival to support and celebrate the work of the Albert Kennedy Trust with homeless and at risk LGBT youth.

We have once again secured the exclusive Club at the Ivy as our venue.
Details will be announced soon and there are lots of surprises to that will make this year’s Carnival better than ever.

Tickets will be available at a range of prices and are very limited in number.

Facebook and Twitter followers of the InterLaw Diversity Forum will benefit from an exclusive advance booking period so visit our Facebook page now and ‘like’ us or follow us on Twitter (@InterlawLGBT).

Hosting and sponsorship packages are available. For details, contact Stephen Ward and Daniel Winterfeldt.

Immigration Equality Panel Event: 6:30 pm, Thursday, 16 February (Family Migration, Asylum and Same-Sex Couples in the U.S. and U.K)

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:23:00 -0500

Immigration Equality Panel Event: 6:30 pm, Thursday, 16 February (Family Migration, Asylum and...

January Monthly Meeting (18 January, Paul Hastings, 6:30 pm)

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:11:00 -0500

Please note that the venue for our meeting taking place this Wednesday, 18 January 2012 has now...

Launch of Career Progression Survey 2012 by the InterLaw...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:35:00 -0500

Launch of Career Progression Survey 2012 by the InterLaw Diversity Forum, the Law Society and the Bar Council

Following our groundbreaking survey The Career Experience of LGB Solictors conducted with the Law Society and the Bar Council and published in 2010, we are now looking to launch a more ambitious and far-reaching project that will survey the career experiences of all lawyers and others working in the legal sector. Our aim is to uncover diverging career experiences of all kinds of people from all backgrounds in every kind of legal practice. The objective is to understand what drives or hinders career progression in the legal sector for men and women, gay and straight, black and white, religious and non-believer. This will inform our work to support a diverse and inclusive workforce across the legal sector where every individual has a fair opportunity to develop a rewarding career.

We hope to repeat the survey regularly so that we can see how the picture changes over time and which initiatives and projects are making a positive difference. Please help us to promote this year’s survey, which will again be conducted in collaboration with the Law Society and Bar Council.

Please participate by completing the survey here and encouraging all of your colleagues to participate. We are also reaching out to senior management and HR professionals to send this link out across their organisations.

Launch of Transgender Initiative Page Please join us in...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:25:12 -0500

Launch of Transgender Initiative Page

Please join us in celebrating the launch of our Transgender Initiative page on our website. This page contains resources to assist employers in becoming more inclusive of trans people, including links to charities such as the Gender Trust and Press for Change, as well as a link to the ground breaking resource created by Galop called ‘Shining the Light: 10 Keys to Becoming a Trans Positive Organisation.’

We have also included a write up on our transgender panel event co-hosted with Lloyds TSB on 1 November 2011 by our InterLaw Diversity Committee members Lucy Annison and Kerrin Roberts.

Please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions for future events and join us in celebrating a next step for LGBT equality for the InterLaw Diversity Forum!

Member’s Survey 2011! As we move forward towards our...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:56:00 -0400

Member’s Survey 2011!

As we move forward towards our fourth anniversary we thought it would be a good time to reflect on our work over the last year and look forward to our next. As a member or supporter of the InterLaw Diversity Forum your views are very important to us, so we have devised a survey to find out more about you and your thoughts on us. None of the questions are mandatory and all answers are anonymous.

Please take a few minutes and complete the survey here. Any and all feedback, comments and suggestions would be gratefully received.

Tenth Annual Stonewall Lecture (Monday 14th November, 6:00pm, The Law Society)

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:50:00 -0400

You are invited to attend the tenth annual Stonewall Lecture Sexual orientation and the Equality Act...

Different Shades of the Same Rainbow: A BAME and LGBT Event...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:08:00 -0400

Different Shades of the Same Rainbow: A BAME and LGBT Event from the InterLaw Diversity Forum, the Bar and the Law Society on Wednesday, 23rd November

Wednesday, 23rd November, 6.00 pm, Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL

The InterLaw Diversiry Forum, the Law Society and the Bar want to explore experience of black, asian and minority ethnic (“BAME”) members of the legal sector and see how this experience is impacted when those members are also part of the LGBT community.

Hear from Dr Rob Berkeley of Runnymede Trust and Ms Laura Swiszczowski of Race for Opportunity as they speak about some of the barriers BAME & LGBT professionals face particularly in the legal workplace and how to overcome them in order to succeed and still stay connected to our various communities. Hear also from senior lawyers who speak from the heart on the challenges of being LGBT and BAME in modern day Britain.

This event will be followed by networking drinks in a safe and engaging environment.

6 pm registration for a 6:30 pm start.

If you are interested in attending please contact Sophia Nadur on s_nadur@yahoo.com or Daniel Winterfeldt on daniel.winterfeldt@cms-cmck.com.

Sponsorship Event with the InterLaw Diversity Forum, GWN and Interbank (Wednesday 30th November, 6.00pm, Morgan Stanley)

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:00:00 -0400

This panel event will cover the theme of ‘Sponsorship’ and will be followed by...

Congratulations to our founder and co-chair Daniel Winterfeldt...

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:34:00 -0400

Congratulations to our founder and co-chair Daniel Winterfeldt for making the Independent on Sunday’s Pink List of the 101 most influential LGBT people for 2011! See the full list and coverage in the Independent here.

Transgender Community in the Workplace Seminar (Tuesday, 1st...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:32:00 -0400

Transgender Community in the Workplace Seminar (Tuesday, 1st November, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm, Lloyds TSB)

Lloyds Banking Group and the Interlaw Diversity Forum are pleased to invite you to our Transgender Community In The Workplace seminar hosted by Lloyds TSB at , 25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN.

Whilst many organisations now have open and effective networks to support LGBT staff, the T population is small and fragmented, with very different needs / requirements from HR, LGB staff and within their own community. This seminar is aimed at HR professionals, employee network group representatives and members of the T community, and will feature speakers from the Gender Trust, one of the UK’s leading organisations working in this field, Lloyds Banking Group’s Diversity & Inclusion team and transgender(ed) individuals. We will be covering issues around the current legal framework for transgender(ed) individuals, how this translates into a work concept, and how companies can best support transgender(ed) individuals and maintain employee engagement.

As far as we’re aware this is one of the first events to be run in this space and we’re really excited about the contribution we hope it will make. We look forward to welcoming you on 1st November. The event will begin at 1600. At present we have not fully decided on a venue as we are waiting to ascertain the level of interest, but it will be in central London.

To RSVP please email patrick.osborne@lloydsbanking.com, listing who will be attending from your organisation in order of preference as we may need to restrict attendance to ensure as many organisations as possible can participate. Please make this invitation available to relevant LGBT network, HR and management contacts as relevant in your organisation.

Feminist Judgments: how women can, and do, shape the...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:01:00 -0400

Feminist Judgments: how women can, and do, shape the law

The InterLaw Diversity Forum Women’s Initiative hosted an evening exploring Feminist Judgments: how women can, and do, shape the law. The evening was hosted by Norton Rose LLP at their offices at 3 More London Riverside.

We were honoured to have Baroness Hale of Richmond (the only female member of the UK Supreme Court) speak about the importance of women’s perspectives for the law and how women can contribute to different legal decisions. Following Baroness Hale’s introduction, we are delighted to look into three fascinating decisions of the English courts which provoke discussion about what a ‘feminist’ judgment in these cases might have looked like.

The ‘Feminist Judgments’ project undertaken by Professor Rosemary Hunter of the University of Kent and Professor Clare McGlynn and Dr Erika Rackley of the University of Durham is an imaginative collaboration which has sought to write alternative feminist judgments to significant legal cases. Rather than producing academic critiques, our speakers have engaged in a practical exercise of writing alternative judgments to well known legal cases. The project aimed to consider how decisions might have been reached from a feminist perspective.

During the evening we considered the following cases:

Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2)

[2001] UKHL 44 - Presentation by Professor Rosemary Auchmuty (University of Reading)

Wilkinson v Kitzinger [2006] EWHC 2022 (Fam)

- Presentation by Dr Rosie Harding (Keele University)

R v A (No 2) [2001] UKHL 25

- Professor Clare McGlynn (University of Durham)

Group Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution at Norton Rose, Deirdre Walker chaired questions following the presentations.

We were delighted to be co-chairing this important discussion on gender, sexuality and the law.

Daniel Winterfeldt & Laura Hodgson

Co-Chairs, The InterLaw Diversity Forum

Download Your Copy of our Groundbreaking Publication Barriers to...

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:17:00 -0400

Download Your Copy of our Groundbreaking Publication Barriers to Application for Judicial Appointment for LGBT Lawyers produced with the Law Society and the Bar Council

Please click here to download the InterLaw Diversity Forum’s groundbreaking report produced with The Law Society and The Bar Council on Barriers to Application for Judicial Appointment for LGBT Lawyers: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Experiences published in September 2011. It was co-authored by Professor Leslie J. Moran and Daniel K. Winterfeldt and features a forward from the Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission Christopher Stevens.

Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) LGBT Judicial Outreach Event: September Meeting and Networking Drinks (Wednesday 21 September)

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:43:00 -0400

The InterLaw Diversity Forum monthly meeting on Wednesday 21 September was generously hosted by...

Pop-Up Charity Event to Benefit Stonewall Featuring Skin The...

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Pop-Up Charity Event to Benefit Stonewall Featuring Skin

The InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks hosted a pop-up charity event to celebrate our 3rd anniversary and to benefit Stonewall’s Education for All campaign on Thursday, 15 September 2011 featuring an exclusive DJ set from Skin of Skunk Anansie and generously sponsored by the Law Society. We also had a DJ set from the one and only Jodie Harsh and other surprise DJs and celebrity guests.

Skin is one of Britain’s leading female rock singers. She is also a fashion icon, a renowned DJ, a charity activist, and an inspiring role model. Continually pushing boundaries, she proves that one’s potential can be limitless.

Our venue Diu is nestled on the uber-trendy Greek Street in Soho and is a haven of luxury and glamour. The event ran from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm and the dress code was pre-fashion week glam.

Some of the raffle prizes which were up for grabs included: *drum roll please*: 1. Two Tickets to Britney Spears at the 02; 2. Signed Jesse J CD; 3. Bottle of Champagne and Admission to the Club at the Ivy for Four; 4. Two Tickets to the Unconditional Runway Show and After Party; 5. Basket of REN products…and many more!

Please see photos on our Facebook page here.

More coverage of the InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT...

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:59:00 -0400

More coverage of the InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks Report on LGBT Judicial Diversity published last week! Many thanks to my co-author Les Moran and to Stephen Ward , Philip O Gorman and Laura Hodgson for helping with the launch and to Jonathan Leonhart for amazing editing and Stephen Manion for amazing design work!

Daniel k. Winterfeldt

Read the article….

Monthly Meeting Rotas for 2009, 2010 and 2011/12

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:56:00 -0400

Monthly meeting rota for 2011/12. NB: There are no monthly meetings for October and November 2011...