Addleshaw Goddard’s Monica Burch wears two hats. On one hand she has serious credentials as an active member of the firm’s growing contentious group; on the other, she is Addleshaws’ diversity champion and training principal, leading the firm’s efforts to increase access to the profession.

Burch is an ideal person to represent diversity. She works flexibly and yet manages to split her practice with management duties. During the past year she has led Addleshaws’ efforts to increase diversity, getting the firm involved in a scheme in which lawyers visit schools to encourage pupils to consider the law as a career.