Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

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I'm a Director at Career Legal and lead the HR recruitment team, but first and foremost I am a proud mum of my two sons who happen to be neurodiverse. Like all parents in my position, I have become a specialist in their diagnosis to understand and support them and ensure they are living their best lives. In my quest for knowledge, I have naturally engaged with the wider subjects of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. In my professional capacity, I have met some exceptional individuals who have faced and overcome extraordinary challenges. These trailblazers gave me the time, inspiration, and confidence to create a platform so that my clients, HR Managers, and D&I professionals, could learn from their stories through seminars and blogs which in turn inspires them to introduce ED&I into their firms. As a result, we have now built a tremendous community of people who continue to inspire and work towards equality for all in everyday life and the workplace.
Michelle Church Director – recruiting HR Professionals and Diversity & Inclusion Co-Lead – Neurodiversity & Mental Health Champion

As a Director of Career Legal, I also head the Change and Transformation team for DVF recruitment. My passion for ED&I stemmed from a personal epiphany. Having worked in recruitment for several years, I previously lacked the confidence to represent my true self in the workplace. That changed when I arrived at Career Legal. It was enlightening, 7 years on, I am now fully immersed in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion both within the company, driving communication and support for our staff, but also addressing how we approach recruitment itself, ensuring we champion the principles of ED&I whenever we promote candidates to our clients. We have embraced the subject as a cornerstone of our professional delivery ensuring we are constantly talking and working toward everyone having the confidence to be their whole true selves in the workplace.
Anthony Webster Managing Director

As the HR manager at Career Legal, I am responsible for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion representation for all our staff. At Career Legal DE&I is integral to our core values as a business, it is front and centre in everything we do. I’m therefore committed to championing DE&I and leading inclusively, working to create policies and procedures that support our goals and benefit us all. We continually develop through training programmes to help educate employees and develop DE&I hiring practices and mentorship programmes. Ultimately, my role is to create a safe environment where our employees can bring their true selves to work.
Michelle McDermott Director of HR and Business Services

A brilliant event to attend hosted fantastically by Michelle and the team at Career Legal. Gave us a great insight of common difficulties faced in recruitment for people who are Neurodiverse. As well as suggestions that can be done to improve our process from application stage right through to supporting employees once onboard.
Glenn Wilshaw Recruitment Manager at Trowers & Hamlins

We ultimately want to allow everyone to unlock their potential, and to achieve this we all need to consider how we accommodate and embrace neurodiversity during the hiring process and in employment. Sessions like this are a great way to educate, breaking biases, challenge traditional norms and build an inclusive, diverse, and dynamic work environment.
Ben Daniels Senior Recruitment Manager at Dentons

It was a pleasure attending this event on Neurodiversity in the Workplace with Career Legal and the Sycamore Trust. It’s so important to educate ourselves on this topic and to keep the conversation open and on-going.
Vanessa Harvey Senior Recruitment Manager at Milbank

Our ED&I statement

We embrace diversity and equality wholeheartedly. We’ve worked hard to create a community of different backgrounds skills and views. The more inclusive we are the better we are, individually and collectively. It characterises everything we do and certainly to the benefit of our clients and candidates.

ED&I at Career Legal

We’re proud of our inclusive environment, a community that brings a multitude of perspectives and experiences to the company. We appreciate the differences and continue to gain a deeper understanding. We continue educating ourselves, understanding and addressing ED&I across our company. We implement a range of practices such as internal and external awareness training sessions and events, client seminars, monitoring diversity statistics, and wellbeing surveys. We continue to work with partnering charities providing mentoring work experience schemes, CV workshops, and continue to keep up to date with current affairs.

Neurodiversity in the Workplace event

Career Legal and DVF Recruitment proudly hosted our 2023 EDI event the "Neurodiversity in the Workplace" seminar held on November 14th, 2023, at our offices. We were delighted to host HR professionals from the legal sector, inviting them to engage with our guest speakers who shared compelling insights into neurodiversity, drawing from their personal journeys and professional experiences.

Centred around ADHD, Dyspraxia, and Autism, the seminar provided a comprehensive exploration of these neurodiverse experiences, offering valuable perspectives from both personal narratives and professional insights.

Our lineup of speakers featured Anna Csépányi, Jemma Taylor, Cheryl Kearney, and Robert Lamb, representing Sycamore Trust UK, alongside Harriet Ratcliffe from Fladgate. Following the thought-provoking discussions, attendees had the opportunity to network and exchange experiences.