by Laura Vosper | Jun 24, 2021 | D&I
Campaigning for LGBT+ equality As it’s Pride month, we wanted to celebrate some of the projects and campaigns from around the world led by lawyers to further LGBT+ rights. There are still 71 jurisdictions in the world that criminalise sex between same-sex, consenting...
by The Obelisk Team | Oct 24, 2019 | D&I, In-house Teams
The theory that diversity increases the bottom line and is vital for commercial success is now widely accepted, leading to notable progression in terms of gender. The majority of law firms now accept they need to do more to recruit and retain women at senior level....
by The Obelisk Team | May 27, 2016 | Trending, Women in Law
The daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants and the first generation of her family to attend university, Zeenat Islam is challenging the hurdles facing women and minorities who want to pursue a career in Law. Zeenat graduated at the top of her year at the University of...
by Dana Denis-Smith | Jul 5, 2015 | Trending, Work/Life
This blog is a tribute – just not one to my mother, as you would expect on this Mother’s Day. It is a dedication from a mother to the hundreds of mother lawyers that I have come to know since I founded Obelisk Support in 2010 around a simple idea: to allow them to set...