We are aiming for gender diversity within all teams and at every level of the firm – lawyers and business services.]
Our core focus is to improve gender diversity at the most junior and the most senior levels of the firm. In particular, increasing female representation in senior and leadership roles, and increasing male representation in our more entry level roles. Although two thirds of our workforce are women, only 23% of our Partners are women. Our challenge is to retain and promote the talent we have at the middle-layer of our career paths in both legal and non-legal roles, and bring people through to more senior positions, irrespective of gender.
To help us meet these challenges we have signed up to the Law Society’s Women in Law Pledge and will be publishing our gender action plan in 2021.
Gender pay gap
Our gender pay gap report looks at the average difference in hourly earnings between men and women within our organisation. The report also covers our partner and ethnicity pay gaps and what we are doing to take the business forward. Find out more
Download the 2020 report [PDF]
News
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Appreciating and recognising all those who parent on Global Day of Parents 2021
The United Nations' Global Day of Parents is observed on 1 June as a celebration of parents and families all
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Osborne Clarke makes-up seven UK Partners and promotes three legal directors
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has made seven Partner promotions in the UK. The newly promoted colleagues have a mix
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Gender pay gap report
Our gender pay gap report looks at the average difference in hourly earnings between men and women within our organisation. The
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Work Spaces as Safe Spaces: Visibly Supporting Transgender Employees
Max Turner - Work Acceptance Officer and OC Pride Gender Identity Rep Today marks International Trans Day of Visibility, an
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Osborne Clarke launches Diversity Champions Forum
New governance board made up of Partners and senior colleagues ensures accountability for the firm's diversity and inclusion strategy Osborne
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Sarah Dobson and Amy Dimond honoured in Law.com’s Women, Influence and Power in Law Awards ‘Class of 2021’
Osborne Clarke is very pleased to announce operations director Sarah Dobson and associate director Amy Dimond have been recognised in
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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021 at Osborne Clarke
International Women’s Day (IWD) is marked annually on 8 March, as a celebration of social, economic, cultural, academic and political
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Osborne Clarke becomes the first law firm to partner with the European Network for Women in Leadership
Firm joins sponsors Orange, Microsoft, INSEAD, Lenovo International legal practice Osborne Clarke has become a sponsor of the European Network
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Osborne Clarke receives National Equality Standard accreditation
The firm is the seventh UK firm to receive the accreditation for equality, diversity and inclusion excellence International legal practice
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Ray Berg announced as HERoes Top 40 Advocate Executive at the Outstanding Hero Awards 2019
International legal practice Osborne Clarke’s UK Managing Partner, Ray Berg, has been recognised as a top 40 HERoes Advocate Executive
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Ray Berg announced as “Agent of Change” at prestigious Management Today awards hosted by IOD, Women’s Business Council and Sky
International legal practice Osborne Clarke's UK Managing Partner Ray Berg has been recognised as one of the UK's biggest (male)
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We are supporting International Women’s Day and putting female lawyers first on our website
To celebrate International Women’s Day we wanted to shine a light on our female lawyers, so this year we are quite
Case studies
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“The three most important things I learnt from my partnership promotion process”
Pippa Byrne was recently promoted to Partner. Here, Pippa shares the three key things shed learned during the partnership promotion process,
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“I feel much more confident in myself and my abilities following the course”
I attended the Female Senior Associate Development Course from September 2017 until summer 2018. Initially I was slightly apprehensive about
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Watch: Diversity at Osborne Clarke
UK Managing Partner Ray Berg and Su Akgun, Diversity and Wellbeing Manager, discuss our approach to diversity at Osborne Clarke.
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“What I enjoyed the most was having the time together as a family unit”
I took a month of paternity leave and holiday when my daughter was born which was invaluable and so appreciated
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“Each person’s needs are different”
My husband and I wanted to take an extended period of time off following our wedding to fulfil a long-held
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“So far the four-day week is working really well for me”
I have been lucky enough to have been at Osborne Clarke for 23 years now. During that time, I have
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Osborne Clarke Gender network
Osborne Clarke Gender has been set up to create an environment that promotes greater gender diversity at Osborne Clarke. It