Photo from Funke Abimbola MBE

Former General Counsel at Roche UK

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Thanks to Funke Abimbola MBE, former General Counsel at Roche UK for entering the above photo in our 3rd International Lawyers’ Photography Awards.  Funke’s photo was taken at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, Italy.

If you are a lawyer and have a travel photo, I’d love to see it.   You could end up winning our top prize of a:

2 x night stay (+ dinner for 2 on one evening) in Vivenda Miranda – a luxury boutique cliff-top hotel in the Algarve, Portugal.

The Winners of our 3rd Annual Lawyers’ Photography Competition will be announced at our General Counsel Summit in London hosted in the impressive Auditorium at the global law firm:

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

I look forward to seeing your travel snap.

Colin

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About Funke Abimbola MBE

Funke is a solicitor and former General Counsel at Roche UK.

She is a notable diversity campaigner, mainly focusing on campaigning for more gender equality, race diversity and social mobility within the legal profession and wider business community.

Currently the most senior black lawyer in her field, she is ranked as being a top 15 BAME leader globally (Financial Times), one of the 100 most influential leaders of African/Afro-Caribbean heritage in the UK (The Powerlist) and the most influential black lawyer in the UK (Debretts 500 list).

Funke has received both national and international recognition for her legal and diversity work and is an experienced public speaker, sharing her personal journey with large audiences ranging from school children to senior professionals including regularly speaking and campaigning in Parliament. She holds a number of board-level voluntary leadership roles across a range of different diversity organisations and appears regularly on BBC 1 as a news reviewer to an estimated global audience of 320 million.

A proud working mother, an expert mentor and sponsor, Funke is passionate about the law, diversity, education and healthcare. She is a regular media commentator, a keen fundraiser for various charities (including Cancer Research UK) and has twice served as school governor and as a board director. She founded the Akindolie Medical Scholarship in memory of her father, Dr. Frank Olufemi Akindolie. This is a privately funded bursary and leadership mentoring initiative aimed at supporting future UK doctors from a minority ethnic background.

Funke was honoured with a ‘Point of Light’ award by UK Prime Minister Theresa May and the UK Cabinet Office in October 2016, recognising the positive impact of her voluntary diversity work in improving workplace diversity and in supporting the next generation of future leaders.

In June 2017, she was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s 91^st birthday honours list for services to diversity in the legal profession and young people.

 

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3rd International Lawyers’ Photography Awards

Theme:  Travel

Now open to all lawyers to enter a travel photo. 

Our competition closes on 30 September 2018

Please email your travel photo to:

colin@lawyersbdc.com 

TOP PRIZE:

Luxury boutique cliff-top hotel in the Algarve, Portugal:

2 x night stay in Hotel Vivenda Miranda, Lagos, Algarve, Portugal

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NEWS:

LAWYERS’ BD CLUB

I’m excited about our two upcoming General Counsel Summits in London and Dublin.

London:

More details are on this link – please click HERE.

Dublin:

More details are on this link – please click HERE.

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Executive Search &

Legal Recruitment arm of the

Lawyers’ BD CLUB

 

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I’m delighted we now have an Executive Search & Legal Recruitment arm of the Lawyers’ BD CLUB.

If you are thinking of moving jobs, particularly in London or Dublin and would like to have a confidential conversation, I would be delighted to hear from you.

Colin

E: colin@lawyersbdc.com