‘The statistics are staggering. Around 25% of the UK population are disabled, But in 2025, the Solicitors Regulation Authority reported that only 8% of lawyers declared they had a disability.’
For Freshfields counsel Reena Parmar, who last night was named Disability/Neurodiversity Champion of the Year at the Legal 500 UK ESG Awards, this suggests that ‘a large proportion of disabled and neurodivergent people simply don’t trust their firm with this information.’
