The impact of COVID-19 on the legal profession, Black Lives Matter and representation within the legal sector

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The impact of COVID-19 on the legal profession, Black Lives Matter and representation within the legal sector

Umar Kankiya is a Mental Health and Mental Capacity solicitor with over 10 years’ experience in these fields and has been a qualified solicitor for the last eight years. As part of The Solicitors' Charity's ongoing listening project and research in the legal profession, Umar shares his own view on how the last six months have gone. In this special guest feature, he talks about the impact of COVID-19 on the profession, Black Lives Matter and representation within the legal sector.

“Representation matters and COVID-19 has served to shine a spotlight, on so many levels, the fact that the old way of doing things in over”.

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