• Linda Urquhart OBE

    Linda was the first female Managing Partner of a major Scottish law firm. She is a Non-Executive Director and was awarded an OBE for services to business. [...]

  • Liz Truss, First Woman Lord Chancellor

    Liz Truss (speaking as the UK’s first female Lord Chancellor) argues that the legal profession’s global reputation is driven by talent and innovation, and that to keep leading the [...]

  • Lord Neuberger on Women in the Legal Profession

  • Madeleine Heggs

    Madeleine Heggs set up her own legal practice over 60 years ago. Brought up by a single mother during the war after her father was killed, Madeleine went to [...]

  • Major General Susan Ridge

    Major General Susan Ridge, CB is a senior British Army officer and lawyer. From September 2015 until July 2019, she was Director General of the Army Legal Services Branch [...]

  • Master Victoria McCloud

    Victoria McCloud is a British judge. She is the most senior public figure to have transitioned from male to female. In 2010 she became a Queen's Bench Master, the [...]

  • Millicent Grant, CILEX, first President with a minority background

    Millicent Grant was the President of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and the first President from a visible minority background. Growing up, she was inspired by a photo [...]

  • Nemone Lethbridge: an inspirational story of a woman in law

    Nemone Lethbridge was born in 1932. She read law at Somerville College Oxford and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1956. After mixed pupillages, she focused on [...]

  • Nilema Bhakta-Jones: from Barrister to General Counsel

    Nilema Bhakta-Jones explains that growing up with Indian parents meant education was non-negotiable and careers were seen through a narrow “doctor/lawyer/accountant” lens. As the youngest daughter with three older [...]

  • Oonagh Harpur on women leaders in conversation with First 100 Years

  • Rachel Spearing

    An exclusive interview with Rachel Spearing for First 100 Years. Spearing is a barrister at Serjeant's Inn Chambers. Previously she worked in Capital Markets in a US investment bank. [...]

  • Rose Heilbron

    An exclusive interview with Hilary Heilbron QC discussing her mother, Dame Rose Heilbron, who was the first of two female QCs, the first female Recorder, and the first woman [...]

  • Rosemary Martin

    Rosemary is Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at Vodafone. She has been strongly involved in promoting innovation and diversity in the legal profession.

  • Sabine Chalmers

    Sabine is the Group General Counsel of BT, having worked all over the world, including in-house for two global beverage companies between 1993 - 2017. [...]

  • Sandie Okoro

    Dr Sandie  Okoro OBE Dr Sandie Okoro OBE is a distinguished  British lawyer who currently serves as the Group  General Counsel for Standard Chartered Bank. She  assumed this role [...]