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A summer of pro bono workshops: upskilling legal placement students

Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2024 by CJ Obi

Empowering and upskilling young people It's always been really important to Ryder Reid that we’re generous with our knowledge and resources, and we work hard as a team to remain active in our commitment to empowering young people with the skills they need to access a Legal career. We believe all businesses have a big responsibility to do what they can to help a wide pool of young people learn, ...

Securing top Exec talent amidst the changing leadership landscape in global law firms

Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast

Modern leadership in global law firms In my 26 years placing executives in top global law firms, I’ve witnessed a sector-shaking shift in what the Legal field wants from its leaders. An industry working hard to diversify, a greater spectrum of client demand, evolving markets and competitive landscapes, the weighty impact of the pandemic on day-to-day operations — these are just a few of the ...

The risk of tokenism in recruitment: why hiring firms need a sound DEI strategy

Posted on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast

The push for diverse and inclusive recruitment It’s well recognised that there’s been a collective push to drive Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) forward across the corporate world, and visible efforts are being made to instil DEI into the DNA of how organisations and their people operate, think and feel. Wonderfully, this hugely positive change is felt in recruitment too. I’m witnessing a ...

How law firms are working to boost social mobility in legal

Posted on Thursday, June 13, 2024 by Hannah Hassack

Businesses have a huge role in Social Mobility Social mobility is about empowering everyone, regardless of their socio-economic background, to fulfil their potential. When we talk about social mobility, we talk about equal opportunities. Everyone deserves to thrive regardless of where they were born, their financial status, their education, their ethnicity, and so on. But for this to happen, to ...

Why employee wellbeing starts at the hiring stage

Posted on Thursday, May 16, 2024 by Hannah Hassack

Your job has a profound impact on your wellbeing I often think about this concept in the job that we do here at Ryder Reid Legal, and in relation to peoples working lives. The average person spends 90,000 hours at work in their lifetime! Given this, the impact of your working life on your wellbeing is not small. If our job is potentially our biggest lifelong time commitment, it stands to reason ...

Founder of Social Mobility Green Skills Week Rob Powell talks to us about the role of apprenticeships in CSR and green careers

Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2024 by CJ Obi

We see it as our role as a responsible business to continue to engage with a diverse range of initiatives within Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), to learn more about good practice from the people we work and connect with, and to review our own processes against what we learn. As part of Social Mobility Green Skills Week (SMGSW) which took place last month, our Responsible Business lead CJ ...

Why and how businesses can embrace the new flexible working legislations with confidence

Posted on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 by Hannah Hassack

A welcome change Callum and I have championed flexible working for a long time. We’re both busy parents with young children, and we know how impossible the juggle can be for working parents these days. This extends to anyone with domestic responsibilities or other commitments that leave them stretched, burnt out and unable to cope. Many of our team are parents, or have people they care for and ...

How I overcame rejection as a young candidate and went onto have a glowing career alongside IVF and becoming a mother to two autistic children

Posted on Friday, March 8, 2024 by Keira Couzens

Keira Couzens is our Head of Business Services. She joined us on an apprenticeship 15 years ago, fresh from school, and in her time with us she’s been through IVF, become a mum-of-two and adapted to her two children’s autism diagnoses. Here Keira shares her story and explains why she’s determined to be a role model for her kids, as well how businesses need to adapt to better support women to be ...

Addressing gender disparity and empowering women to thrive in their careers

Posted on Friday, March 8, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast

A long way to go for gender equality in business When Callum and I became Co-owners of Ryder Reid in 2018, we took the time to really think about our values and establish how we were going to ensure that as a business we continue to contribute positively to the world around us. As a gender-balanced organisation originally founded by two pioneering women (at a time when purely female-led ...

Why we’re happy to be sponsoring a grassroots girls’ football team

Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast

Supporting young talent We know that empowering rising stars is paramount for tapping into future talent and ensuring the ongoing success of any business. Championing young people with a flair for the field not only helps to maintain a dynamic team which can adapt with the game, it also ensures that when the time is ripe there will be a succession of capable experts ready to take the ball and run ...