INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2025

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2025

JOIN US TO DISCUSS HOW TO ‘ACCELERATE ACTION’ ON 12 MARCH 2025

Our current President, Nicola Wainwright, set as one of WHLS’s objectives for 2025 a focus on equity, diversity and inclusion. As is well known, diversity remains a significant concern within the legal profession as a whole and WHLS is planning a series of events to raise awareness of, and provide opportunities to discuss, issues of discrimination which are limiting access to and progression of some groups within the profession. Our International Women’s Day Event on 12 March 2025 will be the first of those events.

With insightful contributions from two inspiring speakers we will be highlighting the challenges faced by women in the legal profession and focusing on the theme of the International Women’s Day 2025 - ‘Accelerate Action’ - identifying swift and decisive steps that can be taken to achieve gender equality.

Our confirmed speakers are:

• Anila Khalique, non-practising lawyer, chartered fellow at CMI, TEDx and guest MBA lecturer at Nottingham Business School. Anila has just completed a doctorate on ‘Women Solicitors pathways to partnership and beyond: navigating the glass ceiling and glass cliff’.

• Jade Gani, founder and CEO of Circe Law. In 2023 Jade was shortlisted by Next 100 Years for their Champion of the Year Award and she was highly commended in the rising star of the year award at the Modern Law Private Clients Awards. In the same awards, Circe Law was shortlisted in the for best workplace wellbeing.

The event will take place 6pm on 12 March 2025 at Doughty Street chambers, London, WC1N 2LS.

For more information contact us on cwhlawsoc@gmail.com. Tickets will be on sale shortly. We hope that you can join us for what will be an important and thoughtful discussion.