{"id":125970,"date":"2023-10-05T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=125970"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:25:48","slug":"dei-categories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/esg-awards\/dei-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"DE&amp;I Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">DE&amp;I: Rising Star<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This category will acknowledge a truly standout rising star for their contribution to diversity and inclusion within the legal profession, covering private practice, in-house and the Bar. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/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}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>DE&amp;I Champion (private practice)<\/strong><br \/>\nThis category will acknowledge a truly standout individual for their contribution to diversity and inclusion within private practice. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">DE&amp;I: Law Firm Initiative<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This award will go to the best Diversity &amp; Inclusion initiative by a law firm or group of firms. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/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;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Internal Support Network of the Year<br \/>\n<\/strong>This category acknowledges networks that make truly exceptional contributions to supporting lawyers and\/or business support staff within law firms, the Bar and in-house legal teams, across all levels of seniority. Judges will be looking for evidence of initiatives to improve representation and inclusion within an organisation across any aspect of DE&amp;I, including disability, neurodiversity, mental health, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and social mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DE&amp;I: Rising Star This category will acknowledge a truly standout rising star for their contribution to diversity and inclusion within the legal profession, covering private practice, in-house and the Bar. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.\u00a0 DE&amp;I Champion (private practice) This category will acknowledge a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/esg-awards\/dei-categories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DE&amp;I Categories&#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-125970","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125970","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=125970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256564,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125970\/revisions\/256564"}],"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=125970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}