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Foreword
Foreword
July 2025
Time surely does fly. It’s been over a year since I wrote my first foreword when I served as guest editor for May 2024’s edition. This is my first foreword in my new role as the Commissioning Editor at Legal Women, thanks to our Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Coral Hill.
With the rise of the digital era, our magazine will now only be published in digital format. Additionally, we have reduced the number of editions from four to three a year (March, July and November).
We are also moving away from being “England centric”, and will now be featuring more contributions from women based in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
This will extend Internationally. As such, we will be including an international perspective on some of themes.
In this Edition-we profiled women based in Kenya-Africa, Spain and the United States.
On the theme of Senior Leadership, (we know that female lawyers face a lot of hurdles in relation to career progression), I found it refreshing to profile women who have achieved Partner status, a Founder and also Co-Founder of a law firm and even a Supreme Court Justice-(l had the privilege of profiling Lady Rose of Colmworth, DBE).
The impact of the rollback of DEI policies in the US and globally; warranted a conversation. It was therefore befitting to have a domestic (UK) and International perspective(US) on this.
The commissioning of an independent review of the Solicitor’s Qualifying Exam (SQE) by the Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority (SRA) prompted me to collate various perspectives from candidates, educators and employers in the form of interviews, which we published across our social media pages in April.
In continuing with this SQE review series, I thought it prudent to include some more perspectives. This time I interviewed two educators, a candidate who recently passed her assessment and updated the previously published employer’s perspective interview, to include additional questions.
Charity Mafuba,
Commissioning Editor and Director, Solicitor (England and Wales), New York Attorney
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