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Leigh Day advertises for black solicitor apprentices to address staff imbalance

updated on 27 September 2019

Leading solicitors’ firm Leigh Day is advertising for black applicants to apply for solicitor apprenticeship vacancies, as part of a move to address an imbalance of “many fewer Afro-Caribbean and African qualified staff than we ought to have for our geographical area”.

The firm, known for taking on difficult cases against the government and large corporations, is looking for six candidates to begin solicitor apprenticeships in September 2020.

As Legal Futures reports, the move has been targeted by trolls online, but managing partner Frances Swaine said that the firm is simply using the Equality Act for a “time-limited” period to tackle its problems in attracting applicants with African or Afro-Caribbean heritage.

Swaine also told the Law Gazette: “We made a decision with our BAME committee that one of our aims was to increase the number of Afro-Caribbean and African staff. Because we are all in agreement the demographic is not what we would want it to be then we want to do something positive.”

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