Revealed: The scale of sexual harassment in law
The profession has a problem
#MeToo: Lawyers share their worst experiences of sexual harassment
Our respondents have shared some of their worst sexual harassment experiences in response to The Lawyer’s survey. Here are their stories.
Law firms are failing the victims of sexual harassment
Over 85 per cent of lawyers who have witnessed or suffered sexual harassment did not report it, data gathered by The Lawyer reveals. The survey, which collected 1,000 responses from the legal industry, shows that over a third of lawyers have witnessed sexual harassment in the workplace. Almost half (49.1 per cent) of survey respondents […]
Latham: The rise and very public fall of Bill Voge
What a way to go. If anyone was wondering what it would take for the global chair of a $3bn law firm to stand down from his position, yesterday’s shock revelation, which has since been updated as more details have emerged, provided the answer. For it to have happened to the global law’s golden firm […]
The problem of Mipim: when a boys’ tour doesn’t cut it any more
As lawyers pack their bags for Mipim next week, you can feel the ripples of unease that this year they will be the focus of unprecedented public scrutiny.
