{"id":125940,"date":"2023-10-05T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=125940"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:32:42","slug":"disability-neurodiversity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/esg-awards\/disability-neurodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability\/Neurodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Disability\/Neurodiversity Champion<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This category acknowledges truly exceptional individual contributions to improving disability\/neurodiversity inclusion within the legal profession, across private practice, in-house and the Bar and all levels of seniority, covering both lawyers and non-legal staff. Judges will be looking for evidence of involvement in\/leadership of key initiatives to boost representation of disabled\/neurodiverse lawyers or involvement in broader industry-wide initiatives.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:257,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Disability\/Neurodiversity: Best Initiative<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b>This category is awarded to the best initiative intended to boost disability\/neurodiversity representation and inclusion; spanning both visible and invisible disability\/neurodiversity within law firms, chambers or in-house legal teams. Submissions are open to UK law firms, international firms operating in the UK, in-house legal teams and the Bar. Submissions should demonstrate a targeted strategy and evidence of results to boost representation of disabled\/neurodiverse individuals within the legal profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disability\/Neurodiversity Champion This category acknowledges truly exceptional individual contributions to improving disability\/neurodiversity inclusion within the legal profession, across private practice, in-house and the Bar and all levels of seniority, covering both lawyers and non-legal staff. Judges will be looking for evidence of involvement in\/leadership of key initiatives to boost representation of disabled\/neurodiverse lawyers or involvement &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/esg-awards\/disability-neurodiversity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disability\/Neurodiversity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27682,"featured_media":0,"parent":121382,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230992,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125940\/revisions\/230992"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}