City Disabilities is looking for a new mentor. We need you to be working in the technology industry. The mentee has a slight preference for tech security but this is not essential. The mentor will need to have ASD/ADHD or have a great deal of experience enabling a young colleague with that diagnosis. You will
To challenge assumptions about disability, No 5 Chambers and City Disabilities will be running a webinar on cross examination and political interviewing. Robert Hunter and Natasha Mutch, the presenters, are deaf and/or have dyslexia. Register here: https://no5.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aeWXuC2KT8mfRWpYKoXX2A.
The Disability Law Service is looking for a new Chair of Trustees. If any of our mentors are interested, please read more here for details and application information: https://dls.org.uk/get-involved/vacancies/chair-of-trustees/
We have been asked by the Law Society’s Lawyers with Disabilities Division if our mentors and mentees are interested in assisting with two matters on which they are working: 1. Evidence that it would be appropriate for the SRA to offer assistive technology as a matter of course for the SQE1. Have you used
Join No. 5 Barristers’ Chambers and Robert Hunter, the founder of City Disabilities, (@CtyDisabilities) for a webinar on the 24th May 5pm-6pm to explore issues of etiquette around disability. The event is open to all, so please register here: http://ow.ly/gwh350EAWWr
Over the next few weeks we will be releasing the results of our survey: “Attitudes to Disability in the Workplace.” You can see more by following us on Twitter (@ctydisabilities), Instagram (city_disabilities) or Facebook. We will be sharing some graphics that breakdown how hundreds of people with disabilities have reacted to questions about their job
EmployAbility are advertising roles with Amazon for 1-4 year qualified people, mostly in tech roles. Click here for more details.
EmployAbility are working with Google to offer this great opportunity to students in STEM and similar disciplines. Read more and apply here. Don’t miss the deadline of 1 June!
Our founder, Robert Hunter, has written an article for The Lawyer Magazine about how we measure performance, and it’s relationship to disability. It’s called “Would Linklaters have won the Vietnam War?” and although it focuses on the Legally Disabled survey, and law firms in particular, its lessons relate to all employers. You can read it here,
An interesting article in The Guardian about the recruitment of a neuro-diverse work force. You can read the article here.