TwoBirds rolls out bursary scheme

The bursary, which is being run by the firm’s diversity head and commercial partner Simon Shooter, will see four students receive awards of £2,500 for each year of their law degrees.

The firm will also provide funding for items such as laptops, although it will review this on a case-by-case basis. A junior solicitor or trainee will be assigned as a mentor to each student.

Shooter said: “We were looking at the various pushes being made into diversity and, being a natural ­sceptic, we thought everyone was looking at statistics when they should be trying to make a difference.

“One of the difficulties when looking at diversity in City law firms is that you have a very small pond to fish from, and we wanted to see what we could do to make a practical difference.”