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FOCUS OF THE DAY: Male solicitors must be alert to their “unconscious assumptions” and ensure female barristers get an “equal crack of the whip in winning work on their merits”, the vice-chair of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said. Drawing an analogy with research that shows job interviewers tend to hire people like themselves, Patricia Robertson QC said decisions as to which barrister to instruct were “typically made by the senior ranks of law firms, and the vast majority of those in the senior ranks are white and male”. Full story - Legal Futures
FOCUS OF THE DAY: Male solicitors must be alert to their “unconscious assumptions” and ensure female barristers get an “equal crack of the whip in winning work on their merits”, the vice-chair of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has said. Drawing an analogy with research that shows job interviewers tend to hire people like themselves, Patricia Robertson QC said decisions as to which barrister to instruct were “typically made by the senior ranks of law firms, and the vast majority of those in the senior ranks are white and male”. Full story - Legal Futures
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