Bevan Brittan is an inclusive place to work. We are committed to equality and see diversity as an important part of developing a successful business for our clients, our colleagues and our communities. We are committed to recognising and supporting talented people to succeed at all levels regardless of background, race, gender, sexuality or disability.
Joanne Easterbrook, Partner, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Lead
We are proud of having an environment in which everyone feels comfortable being themselves regardless of their background; one that reflects the diverse society in which we operate.
As a firm, we actively value and promote equality, diversity and inclusion across our leadership, workforce, clients and partners. This is reflected in our recruitment and promotion processes. We strongly believe that learning from and incorporating a broad range of perspectives will help us achieve resilience and growth.
We want to do more than simply pay lip service to crucial issues of inequality based on socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, disability or sexual orientation. Instead, we are striving to be an active voice that contributes to discussions and develops understanding, within the firm and wider society. As well as raising awareness and adopting best practice internally we are working to support social mobility within the broader community through outreach work.
We have a strong and vibrant diversity programme that gives colleagues across the firm an opportunity to take part, led by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee and supported by our Ambassadors, who drive engagement in our strategy and raise awareness across the firm.
By celebrating and reflecting on the diversity of experience within the firm, we are building our culture of inclusion, increasing understanding and breaking down barriers to inequality.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion activities and initiatives
National Inclusion Week
We maximise the opportunity provided by National Inclusion Week to raise awareness about inclusion and develop our understanding of what it means in the workplace. This helps to support our commitment to ensuring that our people feel able to be themselves at Bevan Brittan.
Pride
Pride is a recurring annual firm wide celebration for us. We share resources and colleague stories, take part in parades and host in-house events. We’re proud, repeat sponsors of the Bristol Pride Comedy Night and are sponsoring Wolverhampton Pride 2024.
South Asian Heritage Month
We marked South Asian Heritage Month 2023 by celebrating South Asian cultures and communities. Colleagues hosted a webinar on the “Future of South Asians in Law”, participated in a virtual cook along and shared their family recipes for everyone to enjoy.
Lunar New Year
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, our East Asian Network members shared their personal stories about their own family traditions.
Hear from one of our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Ambassadors
I am proud to be an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Ambassador at Bevan Brittan. I am passionate about the need to raise awareness about equality, diversity and inclusion within the legal sector and this role gives me the opportunity to participate in this crucial dialogue. We have a very open culture at the firm and our team of ambassadors has already made a real difference in engaging colleagues across the firm through roundtables, surveys and regular events.
Melanie Lothbrok, Solicitor, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Ambassador