Please join us on Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at Weil Gotshal & Manges for a combined meeting of our LGBT+ and Race & Ethnicity (BAME) Networks. This event will be commemoratingLGBT History Month and celebrating BAME voices and intersectionality.

We have put together an inspiring panel of legal professionals to share both their work as well as their personal journeys, to kick the new year off with a bang.

Nimmisha Aslam, Associate, Russell-Cooke
Nimmisha is a Solicitor practicing in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Law and is a board member of the Law Society LGBT+ Committee. This committee seeks to represent the interests of LGBT lawyers within the profession. She is also a voluntary mentor for a women’s charity called ‘Laamiga’ which helps BAME women from refugee and asylum backgrounds to find employment.

S Chelvan, Barrister, No5 Chambers (London)
Chelvan is a barrister at No5 Barristers Chambers, based in London. He has an international reputation as an activist/academic/advocate relating to protection and human rights claims based on sexual or gender identity or expression in "Europe and beyond" (UNHCR Ireland, December 2017). He was awarded Legal Aid Barrister of the Year in 2014, is referred to as a Powerhouse in the Black Law Directory Powerlist of 34 top black influencers in the law and is the highest ranked lawyer in the most recent Independent on Sunday Rainbowlist of the top 101 most influential LGBTI individuals in the UK.

Narind Singh, Partner, Clifford Chance
Narind Singh is a partner in the Financial Institutions Corporate Group at Clifford Chance. He specialises in financial services corporate transactions and M&A for banks, insurers and asset managers. Narind is the senior champion for Arcus, the Clifford Chance LGBT employee network group. He’s an active member of the group’s steering committee and has chaired the committee of the firm’s tenth Pride art show. He has spoken at several events, including collaborative event between the firm’s LGBT and BAME networks and faith networks. Narind has also spoken openly on panels about his personal experiences of overcoming certain mental health issues and is a Clifford Chance mental health advocate. He is the partner lead on the firm’s non-gendered pro-bono project, which works for inclusion in UK passports of a non-gender specific alternative to male or female. Narind also provides support and guidance to senior management and the firm’s executive leadership group in supporting LGBT equality.

Moderators:

Dee Sekar, Deputy Chair and D&I Specialist, InterLaw Diversity Forum

Daniel Wintereldt, Founder & Chair, InterLaw Diversity Forum; Partner, Reed Smith

Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Host: Weil Gotshal & Manges
110 Fetter Lane
London EC4A 1AY

18:00 Arrival and Registration 
18:30 Meeting Starts
20:00 - 21:00 Networking Drinks