Category Winners
Diana Good Legal
I am absolutely delighted to receive the Women in the City award for legal services. It is particularly nice to be given it at this stage as I move from my 30th year at Linklaters to a completely new life and set of challenges.
Diana Good has been a litigation partner at Linklaters since 1988, having joined the firm as a trainee in 1979. She specialises in running complex high profile cases with an international and regulatory angle. She has been listed as a leading lawyer in Legal 500 and Chambers for many years. She has held a number of management positions in the firm including running Linklaters’ Brussels office, being elected to the firm’s Management
Committee and later to the International Board. Diana was the first woman at Linklaters to be appointed to any of these roles. Diana has also led the promotion of diversity issues at Linklaters. For example, in 1997, she developed the firm’s flexible working policy for both staff and partners, which was the first of its kind in the City. She is now retiring from Linklaters and her City career to pursue a variety of very different activities. These include: part-time
judicial appointment as a Recorder, visiting Professorship at Rome University, Trustee of the Mary Ward (Legal Centre and Adult Education Centre) and the Access to Justice Foundation, helping Camfed (campaign for education of girls in Africa), studying international aid development and a first year degree course in French.
39 Women in the City Lunch and Awards 2008