City Conversations

The Legal Experts in Schools programme - In discussion with Paula Ade

The current landscape of domestic abuse with Jenny Beck

President Simon Davis on Covid-19 and support for solicitors

We discuss the latest issues around ethics and compliance.

We discuss how we can all support our mental health and wellbeing during remote working and periods of stress. Annmarie worked as a family lawyer and mediator at Farrer & Co before becoming a therapist.

We catch up with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner partner and Deputy High Court Judge Tim Smith.

Helena Raulus, head of the UK Law Societies' Joint Brussels Office, and Mickael Laurans, head of international at the Law Society, discuss the latest updates on Brexit.

We catch up with Linsay, Partner and Head of Directories and Tenders Team at MD Communications.

Catch up with Mary Kyle, Head of FPS Technology, City of London Corporation

President Simon Davis discusses the importance of England and Wales as a global legal centre.

We catch up with Libby about how Herbert Smith Freehills successfully incorporated alternative services into the business and the impact of technology on the future of law.

Former Freshfields partner John Davies is a senior adviser in Brunswick Group’s regulatory and public affairs practice.

This podcast examples the opportunities and obstacles in setting up a Brussels office and requalifying into the Flemish-speaking Brussels Bar.

We ask Bernardine about the impact of Brexit on trade and competition law.

Listen to the first in our Brexit series with Mickaël Laurans, head of International at the Law Society. Mickaël delivers a country by country update for law firms looking to operate in Europe post-Brexit. This month we examine Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Greece and Austria.

We ask Charlie about the role of quotas in the fight for gender diversity, his involvement in the Law Society’s women in leadership in law initiative and the Women of Gibson Dunn Initiative.

We speak with Daniel Winterfeldt, partner at Reed Smith, about his work as founder and chair of the InterLaw Diversity Forum.

President Christina Blacklaws speaks with the four past women presidents of the Law Society - Carolyn Kirby, Fiona Woolf, Linda Lee and Lucy Scott-Moncrieff - about gender diversity in the profession.

We speak with Katherine Ramo, an associate in Technology, Media, IP and Competition (TMIC) at CMS. She is also the founder and chair of the CMS ENABLE Disability Network.

We speak with Shruti about working at Allen & Overy and setting up Fuse. Fuse was created to give A&O lawyers and clients opportunities to better understand the use of technology that could benefit them. For the Fuse cohort, it is designed to give them the resources and contacts to develop their products successfully and on an accelerated track, supported through the vast network of A&O lawyers.