‘Progress has not been good enough,’ says Bridget Tatham, a Birmingham insurance partner at Browne Jacobson. ‘The fact there’s scrutiny and a spotlight on it can only be a good thing but we can’t hide behind it.’
According to the most recent data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the number of Black partners in the UK did not increase between 2015 and 2023, despite law firms’ efforts to improve DE&I over this period.
