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Engaging Your Firm and Clients with Your Responsible Business Agenda with the SDGs
Sustainability, social justice, creating meaningful change - how do you accelerate progress within your firm on an international, national, business and individual level? How do you unify the strands of these vital agendas to encourage colleagues to break down silos...
An LSA Update on Climate Week NYC
Matt Sparkes, co-chair of the LSA and Sustainability Director at Linklaters, spent last week at Climate Week NYC. We asked him for his thoughts... Let’s get the irony over before we begin. Yes, there is some absurdity in travelling thousands of miles to bump into...
Law Society Statement on Ukraine
The Law Society has issued an important statement on Ukraine which the LSA endorses and which is reproduced below. The statement can also be accessed via the Law Society website here. The Law Society of England and Wales president Stephanie Boyce said: “The Law...
Living in Lockdown – a student’s eye view
As we approach day 60 in lockdown, law students across the country are experiencing a very different summer term to that imagined at the start of the year. Graduations have either been postponed indefinitely or are to be streamed via Zoom – an anti-climactic end...
Good news on the wind!
Whilst we all get used to a new normal in terms of how we are having to live our lives in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid 19), at least for the next few weeks or months, it is important to remain positive and recognise that we will get through this...
Do we know the price of everything and the value of nothing?
Oscar Wilde’s quip, spoken by Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere’s Fan, that a cynic was “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing” is often quoted. In my less optimistic moods (which I hope are few and far between!) I wonder if some of us may...
Standing up for Snowflakes
Amanda Carpenter As we enter a new decade is it time to ditch the expression ‘Snowflake Generation’ – young adults of the 2010s who are accused of being hypersensitive and prone to take offence too easily? Our so called ‘Snowflakes’ are open to easy jibes at their...