Women Who Will – Women Leaders in Law
Let’s celebrate the visionaries: the next generation of female leaders in law who are breaking down barriers and challenging stereotypes.
Women Who Will Class of 2025
Our 2025 Women Who Will report honours the talented and inspiring women who are the leaders in law.
[We] offer a powerful tribute to the trailblazing women celebrated in this year’s Women Who Will report. Their remarkable accomplishments not only embody innovation and excellence but also reinforce the ongoing commitment to gender equality that is essential for our collective progress.
This report stands as a testament to those visionary women who are transforming the legal profession. As importantly, it serves as a call to action — a reminder that as legal professionals and innovators, we are entrusted with the responsibility to shape a future where legal technology acts as a catalyst for empowering every practitioner. By embedding principles of inclusivity into every facet of innovation, we can ensure that progress and justice are intrinsically linked.
Our Women Who Will report is published in partnership with the Next 100 Years Project, which aims to foster collaboration across the legal profession and provide support, encouragement and advancement opportunities to women, so that they can thrive and succeed in the law going forward.
“It is so important that we do give a voice to those women who are often overlooked or underestimated. Those who work quietly and conscientiously in the background, who have shown strength, tenacity and courage often in the face of hardship and adversity, and who have succeeded against all the odds.”
Lubna Shuja
Immediate Past President of the Law Society of England and Wales (2022/23)
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Our 2021 edition of our Women Who Will report, celebrating the progress of women’s leadership in law, in partnership with the Next 100 Years Project. (published November 2021)
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