Episodes
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Trish McLellan, Director of Engagement at LawCare, is joined by Trustees Rachael O’Connor and Kayleigh Leonie to talk about their reverse mentoring project.
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In this edition of The Legal Mind podcast, Elizabeth Rimmer, LawCare’s CEO, talks with Sharon Glynn, Director, Underwriting, Bond and Speciality at Travelers Europe, about why law firms should be addressing risks to mental health in the workplace and sharing her insights from an insurer’s perspective.
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Rose Donnelly, Engagement and development manager at LawCare, was joined by Reena Parmar, Chair of The Law Society of England and Wales Disabled Solicitors Network.
Rose and Reena discuss a number of topics including Reena’s experiences as a disabled woman from a minority ethnic background, her strategies for managing living with non-visible disabilities alongside a busy career in law and multiple carer responsibilities, her role as Chair of the Disabled Solicitors Network and the disability network she set up at Freshfields.The Law Society of England Wales Disabled Solicitors Network promotes equal opportunities for people with disabilities within the legal profession. It encourages solicitors to use their experiences and expertise to support aspiring solicitors or colleagues seeking to progress in the legal sector. You can follow their work on their LinkedIn group.
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Niamh Warnock, Engagement and Relationship Manager at LawCare, was joined by Fraser Mackay and Tom McGovern, the founding members of Disabling Barriers Scotland.
The podcast talks about this new group, which was only set up at the end of 2022. Fraser and Tom talk about their backgrounds, what motivated them to set up the group, what they have achieved, and what they have planned for the future.
Disabling Barriers Scotland is a support and lobbying group for lawyers with registered disabilities and or issues surrounding neurodiversity. -
In this Pride Month special, solicitors Sam John of Wendy Hopkins Family Law Practice; Kirsty Limacher of Nexa Law Limited and Sherlock Legal Consulting Ltd; and Laura Thomas of NHS Wales SSP, are interviewed by Helen Randall of Trowers & Hamlins LLP, to discuss all about their roles in people based practice (family law, wills and probate, and Court of Protection respectively) and its interface with mental health.
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LawCare’s CEO, Elizabeth Rimmer, talks to Lubna Shuja, President of the Law Society of England and Wales.
In this podcast, Lubna talks about her journey to becoming President, the particular pressures faced by sole practitioners and the importance of healthy workplace cultures to support ethical decision making.Lubna Shuja is the first Asian, the first Muslim and only the 7th female to become President of the Law Society of England and Wales, which represents 200,000 solicitors.
Lubna works with a number of professional regulators. She is currently an Adjudicator Chair of Social Work England’s Fitness to Practise Committee, a Legally Qualified Chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee and a Chair of the General Chiropractic Council’s Investigating Committee. Lubna was a Chair of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service and a Chair for the Disciplinary Committees of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, as well as a Deputy Clerk at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
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LawCare's Niamh Warnock talks to Dr Emma Jones, solicitor turned lecturer and Director of Student Wellbeing for the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, about the newly launched resource Fit for Law: part 2 – Working with others.
In this podcast, Dr Jones tells us what has driven her interest in the area of emotional competency and the wellbeing of law students and lawyers and gives us an insight into what we can expect from the newest resource in the series which was launched in March 2023.
Fit for Law is a series of online resources designed to provide education to legal professionals to address issues relating to emotional self-regulation and wellbeing. Go straight to Fit for Law: www.fitforlaw.org.uk. -
In this episode of our podcast LawCare’s CEO Elizabeth Rimmer talks with Dr Martyn Bradley, a lecturer and Deputy Director of Studies at the University of Liverpool’s Management School. They discuss Dr Bradley’s recent research concerned with the experiences of fathers working in the law and the ongoing difficulties they face in managing family responsibilities whilst simultaneously being expected to prioritize work over, and segment work from, family. Findings and accounts provide insights into the culture of law which listener-practitioners might find both familiar and alien.
Webpage link - https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/management/staff/martyn-bradley/
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Banter is part of every day life, and in the workplace can help build relationships and a sense of belonging, but it can cross the line and lead to people feeling uncomfortable, excluded, harassed or discriminated. In this episode Elizabeth Rimmer, CEO of LawCare, talks with Stella Chandler, Director of Development at Focal Point Training, about banter. Stella is an experienced trainer, facilitator and coach who works with clients to tackle inappropriate behaviour in their organisations and build inclusive cultures.
In this podcast Stella shares her insights and research Focal Point have done with CISI (Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments) into workplace banter and the negative long term impact this can have on both people and organisations, and the practical steps organisations can take to manage banter and build people's confidence to call it out. -
LawCare champion and LawNet’s Peter Riddlestone hosts a discussion with LawNet members Fran Ibson, Alex Langley and Richard Carter about the steps they are taking in their firms to ensure supporting the mental health of their staff is not a box ticking exercise and the positive impact this is having on the culture in their firms. Fran Ibson is a Senior Associate at Stamp Jackson & Procter Limited, Alex Langley is the HR business partner at Debenhams Ottaway and Richard Carter is Managing Partner at Martin Tolhurst Solicitors. LawNet has been supporting independent firms for over 30 years. Mutual and member owned, LawNet has developed a wide range of services and initiatives to help members stay ahead of their competition, reduce costs, improve efficiencies and profitability.
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LawCare's Gemma Matthews talks to sustainability consultant and Seattle based lawyer Nicole DeNamur about how your physical office, or home office, environment can affect your physical and mental wellbeing, your productivity and your performance.
Find Nicole on Linkedin, read her blog on Medium , visit her website or feel free to reach out to her directly on [email protected] -
LawCare's Gemma Matthews speaks to Nicola Green, workplace menopause expert and former conveyancer about how menopause can affect women at work and what workplaces can do to support them.
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LawCare's Gemma Matthews speaks to Carla Hoppe, Founder of Wealthbrite, about financial wellbeing in the legal profession and the link between money worries and mental health.
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LawCare's Gemma Matthews is joined by Dan Kayne, former GC and founder of The O Shaped Lawyer to talk about what they are doing to help to change the culture in the law and how putting people first is essential for the future of the profession. Since this episode was recorded, The O Shaped Lawyer has now partnered with BPP and BARBRI law schools as well as law firm Browne Jacobson.
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LawCare's Gemma Matthews is joined by Dr Anna Topakas, a Lecturer in Work Psychology at the Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield to talk about loneliness at work. They discuss what it is, how it can affect people and what workplaces and managers can do to alleviate it.
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LawCare's Gemma Matthews speaks to former barrister now international mindfulness advocate and author Neil Seligman about conscious leadership and the importance of being a good leader in the law.
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LawCare's Gemma Matthews is joined by Trevor Worth, Chief Executive and Founder of Portcullis Legals who moved to a 4 day week in 2019. He talks about how they did it, what benefits they've seen and why they also increased salaries at the same time.
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LawCare's Gemma Matthews talks to Karen Jackson, Founder-Director of didlaw, expert in employment and discrimination law, and LawCare champion about bullying in the legal workplace.
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LawCare's Gemma Matthews talks to former litigation lawyer turned coach Adam Carvalho about toxic productivity in the legal profession, what workplaces can do to manage it and the benefits of unstructured time and taking a break.
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We listen in on a conversation between Gillian Bishop and Chris Mills on the importance of good supervision in the legal profession.
Gillian Bishop is a solicitor and children law arbitrator. She is the founding partner of Family Law in Partnership Ltd in London. The niche family law firm was set up 26 years ago and was the first in the country to offer in house counselling for clients. Gillian started having supervision with Chris Mills nearly 8 years ago and introduced it to the rest of her colleagues soon thereafter. Now a consultant with the firm Gillian spends her time providing reflective supervision to lawyers in other firms, having trained through FLiP Faculty, as well as championing the need for wellbeing to be top of the agenda of all law professionals.
Chris Mills is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor who began working alongside family lawyers in 2006. Initially this was in collaborative divorce settings, but gradually came to include psychological debriefing sessions for lawyers working on particularly stressful cases. In 2012 he began providing regular reflective supervision for individual lawyers. The scale and reach of this has grown rapidly since working with Gillian Bishop, including running a training in family law supervision through FLiP Faculty. One of Chris’s early supervisees, now a senior partner, has said that she would no longer consider practising as a family lawyer if it didn’t include regular supervision.
Anyone interested in having supervision can access the up to date list of supervisors via www.familylawsupervisors.co.uk
If you are interested in training as a supervisor email [email protected] for more information - Show more
