The gender pay gap in the law 2021

Race and Ethnicity

Law firm
ethnicity survey 2021

We tracked the numbers of BAME
lawyers in UK law firms over five
years. The results imply D&I policy
has largely been ineffective, but the
magic circle buck the trend.

What does it mean to
be a BAME lawyer in 2021?

Bird & Bird associate Rachel
Welch-Phillips tells us how
Black Lives Matter prompted
change in the corporate world last
year and discusses some of the
ongoing issues for BAME lawyers
as we enter 2021.

Looking beyond
Black History Month

Events of 2020 taught us we
haven’t done enough to tackle
structural racism.
What should the legal profession
take away from Black History
Month this year?

On race and ethnicity

Vantage campus ambassadors
share their thoughts on the
representation of Black lawyers
in the profession.

Ethnicity in the law 2020

We turn the microscope onto
ethnicity within law and see if
firms are practicing what
they preach.

The big interview

Dame Linda Dobbs, the first
Black High Court judge,
discusses a remarkable
career of high profile cases.

Social Mobility

Trainee lawyers'
school backgrounds

What effect does your school
background have on your career in
law? Our social mobility survey
2021 reveals how the leading
law firms are performing.

Introduction to
Rare Recruitment

Read up on the organisation behind
the Vantage platform and various
other initiatives that aim
to boost social mobility
in the profession.

Meet the Vantage
campus ambassadors

Interested in Vantage?
Here you can read about
the experiences of five current
ambassadors and how they've
used the Vantage platform.

The impact of Covid-19
on access to the profession

Here the Vantage ambassadors
discuss the issues that impacted
access, including the roll out of
virtual opportunities and the
standardisation of A-Level results.

Vantage campus
ambassador advice

They’ve been there, done it and
got the advice to prove it.
Read on to get some sterling pointers
on how socially mobile candidates
can succeed and keep going
when the going gets tough.

Law firms' preferred
universities

Over nine years we've tracked
the universities feeding the
legal profession.

Women in law 2020 The past decade saw increasing scrutiny on the representation of women in all workplaces, and the law was no exception.
Ethnicity in law 2020 In the next part of our diversity series, we turn the microscope onto ethnicity within law and see if firms are practicing what they preach.
How can your school background affect your career in law? Read on for our 2020 analysis of the school backgrounds of trainee solicitors.
LGBTQ+ representation in the law We began collecting data on firms' LGBTQ+ numbers in 2018. Encouragingly, numbers are already up in this second survey…
Disability in the law - what firms aren't telling us An area of diversity and inclusion that’s often overlooked, representation of individuals with a disability is disappointingly low in many professional fields. The law is no exception…