From noon on November 30 to noon on December 7, any donation you make to LawCare via their page on the Big Give website will be doubled from a matched pot of funding they have already secured. One donation, double the impact!
LawCare's recently published Life in the Law, the largest study on legal mental health in the UK, shows legal professionals are under strain and at significant risk of burnout. Living and working during the pandemic has also had an impact on mental wellbeing with 59% of respondents indicating they were worried about the additional pressures on their work life balance.
“LawCare have significantly helped in my recovery from depression. I believe I experienced mental health issues almost solely as a result of working in an unhappy environment within law. Thanks to LawCare, I am in a much better place in my journey to recovery and hope that my new role is much better for the new me."
LawCare want this research to be the catalyst for us to come together as a profession to create change. They aim to challenge the stigma that surrounds speaking up about mental health and prevents people from accessing the support that LawCare and others provide. We want to create a culture in law that puts the law’s greatest asset – it’s people – first.
Please help provide much needed support to legal professionals.
£25 can help us train a helpline volunteer
£40 provides emotional support to one legal professional in need
£50 pays for a one hour counselling session
£120 provides ongoing peer support to a legal professional in need
LawCare have been providing emotional support to the legal community since 1997 – and in the lead up to their 25th anniversary next year, they are working on an ambitious strategy to turn their research findings into action to improve the culture in law and expand the support they provide.
Approximately one in five of us living in the UK has one & two thirds of people are uncomfortable about it.
What is it? The answer is ‘Disability’.
To mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD) on December 3rd, Jonathan Fogerty, associate solicitor at CFG Law asks “How comfortable are we really with Disability?”
Attendance of all Manchester Law Society Members is requested at the Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Manchester Law Society, to be held virtually via Teams on Monday 13th December 2021 at 5.00pm PROMPT.
Join us at our landmark Social Mobility Conference on 17th March 2022. This Conference is held as a partnership event between Squire Patton Boggs and Manchester Law Society.
Featuring prominent keynote speakers from across the region, insightful panel discussions and candid success stories, this half-day conference will look at the importance of improving social mobility while offering practical tools to implement social mobility into your organisation.
Look out for our full agenda, which will be announced in the coming weeks.
If you would like to be the first to hear the full programme and book your place email CarlaJones@manchesterlawsociety.org.ukto be added to the mailing list.
Withmost UK law firms adopting a hybrid working model – and the focus on permanent job flexibility for all workers – it’s never been more important for firms to protect their data and make their systems more efficient and compliant.
Tameside-headquartered Docutech Office Solutions – UK leader of secure electronic management systems – is seeing Docuflo software transform operational efficiencies across the board.
This pioneering cloud-based document management and workflow automation solution digitises and secures GDPR-compliant data in a central accessible location.
It improves company efficiency and productivity – and therefore profitability – by providing employees with centralised, secure and instant access to documents and processes, whether they’re in the office, working from home or out and about on a mobile app.
Using the latest technology documents can be scanned, sent, received and retrieved through a secure portal with end-to-end encryption. This means only the recipient can access the enclosed information.
It also integrates with other Microsoft applications - as well as most accounting software – for seamless information sharing, allowing documents to be edited and shared, as well as for private information to be withheld.
Confidence is building in these digital-based processes, none more so than in the adoption of e-signature software, which is providing speedy, compliant and confidential document signing across the board.
As part of ongoing digital solutions brief for The Growth Company in Manchester, Docutech supports its Apprenticeship Scheme, facilitating e-signatures on contracts between apprentices and employers and playing a key role in the efficient, secure and timely placement of hundreds of young people.
Jason Dixon, Managing Director of Docutech Office Solutions, said: “As we all navigate our way in a new post pandemic world, there is growing understanding among law firms about how to use digitised processes which is helping to prevent data from being misused or mislaid, supporting staff efficiency and productivity and driving better business performance.”
Did you miss the live stream? Want to see the reactions of the winners? Hear why the winners were chosen and the exciting work taking place in the Manchester Legal community?
You can watch the recording of the Manchester Legal Awards right here!
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