City Conversations

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.

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 Brussels Bar, Dutch language section.Speakers include Peter Callens, president of the Brussels Bar, Dutch language section, Dr Helena Raulus, head of the Law Society Brussels office, and Stephen Smith, competition partner at Bristows and member of our Competition Advisory Committee who requalified into the 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.

We speak with Chris Parsons about mental health in the City.

We ask Wanda about her role at the OLC, her advice for solicitor-advocates aspiring to apply for silk; how judging at this year's Excellence Awards went and the representation of LGBT+ solicitors in the legal community.

We catch up with senior partner Sally Davies and apprentice Joshua Agbleze from Mayer Brown to talk about apprenticeships.

We catch up with Law Society social mobility ambassador Carol Katz, a Managing Associate at Mishcon de Reya.

We catch up with Law Society social mobility ambassador Kawsar Zaman, an associate at Allen & Overy.

Nicholas shares his insights on sitting as a part-time judge in the tax tribunals adjudicating on disputes between taxpayers and HMRC. He is a deputy judge of the Upper Tribunal and a judge of the First-tier Tribunal.

In this podcast, Katrina Robinson, chair of the Law Society LGBT+ Lawyers Division; Adria Moral, Spanish lawyer and registered European lawyer and Chris Seel, diversity and inclusion advisor at the Law Society, discuss Pride in London 2018.

In this podcast, the Hon. Mr Justice Robin Knowles CBE, judge, High Court England and Wales; Professor Jeffrey Golden, chairman, P.R.I.M.E Finance Foundation and Simon Davis, deputy vice-president at the Law Society, discuss the future of international financial disputes post-Brexit.

In this podcast, we catch up with Gemma Lodge, Law Society social mobility ambassador.

In this podcast, we catch up with David Stone about what it's like to be a solicitor working as a deputy high court judge, and how more solicitors can join the judiciary.

In this podcast, we catch up with Law Society social mobility ambassador Whitney Joseph, a trainee solicitor at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP.

In this podcast, Helen Lee, relationship management executive from the City team, catches up with Esther McDermott, senior associate at Dentons, and Chris Seel, diversity and inclusion adviser at the Law Society about LGBT History Month.