Our Sponsors
DWL has a four-tier annual corporate sponsorship program. DWL’s corporate sponsorship is by invite only and organisations are invited in January each year to participate in sponsorship. DWL welcomes its 2025 corporate platinum, gold, silver and bronze sponsors.
Platinum Sponsors
Allens has a strong commitment to inclusion and diversity.
Allens appreciates the enormous value and unique contribution that different backgrounds and life experiences bring to the firm. Allens is strongly committed to embracing these contributions, which enables the firm to connect with clients, make better decisions, solve complex problems, innovate, and attract and retain great people.
Allens is proud to partner with and support DWL’s initiative to create a more diverse profession. Consistent with its strong commitment to inclusion and diversity, Allens is proud to support DWL Founder and Allens Senior Associate, Keerthi Ravi, as she mentors and sponsors diverse women embarking on their legal careers.
Allens’ Acting Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing is Elissa Trafford.
Please feel free to visit and connect with Allens on any of its social media channels.
Gold Sponsors
At Herbert Smith Freehills, we don’t expect our people to be or think the same – diversity and inclusion drive our success and the innovative solutions we deliver to our clients. That’s why fostering an inclusive culture where our people can be themselves, contribute their perspectives and perform roles which are meaningful and aligned to our shared values is a core business priority.” – Justin D’Agostino, CEO
HSF recognises the power of diversity and inclusion to drive innovation, collaboration and successful business outcomes. HSF aims to be the leading global law firm for diversity and inclusion, recognised by its people and the external market as a leading global law firm attracting, promoting, and retaining women. As of March 2024, women make up 37% of HSF’s Australian partnership – an 88% increase since 2014. Globally, HSF has set a global gender target that women comprise 40% of the global partnership by 2030. To that end, HSF has recently launched their 8 Drivers for Gender Equity, focused on the systemic and personal interventions necessary to achieve those gender targets.
HSF recognises the importance of intersectionality in promoting and sustaining diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and is excited to be a platinum sponsor of and share these values with DWL.
HSF’s Diversity and Inclusion representative is Matthew Clements.
Please feel free to read about HSF’s diversity and inclusion strategy and connect with HSF on any of its social media channels:
Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia’s leading independent law firm.
With more than 175 years of history and a talented and diverse team of over 1000 people, we pride ourselves on our client-focused approach and commitment to excellence. Our success relies on attracting and retaining talented people with different ideas, backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality and diverse representation drives diverse thinking, high productivity and enhanced outcomes for our clients.
Diversity in all forms should be embraced and celebrated. We’re delighted to partner with Diverse Women in Law to elevate and empower diverse women to achieve their full potential, for the benefit of our profession, clients and the community.
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DWL today is a force that is gaining strength and speed thanks to our army of passionate women and allies rallying behind our cause. Numerous law firms have heard our call to action by sponsoring our events and initiatives, senior practitioners, judicial officers and barristers have given up their valuable time to mentor and support. DWL members and our volunteers comprising passionate law students and lawyers continues to grow from strength to strength.
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— Keerthi Ravi
Founder of DWL
Thomson Geer firmly believes in equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. Diversity is inherent to the way Thomson Geer operates and is core to the success of our business and people.
Diversity refers to respecting and harnessing differences. It is born out of a recognition that individuals are unique and characterised by a range of differing dimensions - age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, physical ability, religious or cultural belief, and gender identity.
The firm has in place a range of initiatives focused on maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Thomson Geer is proud to support Diverse Women in Law and its mission to empower and support diverse women through all stages of their legal studies and career. The firm shares DWL’s commitment to empowering Diverse Women in the legal profession.
Please feel free to visit and connect with Thomson Geer on any of its social media channels:
Silver Sponsors
Gilbert + Tobin (G+T) values and is dedicated to inclusion. G+T are committed to providing and maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment and a culture which fosters and celebrates difference. We have a long and proud history of celebrating diversity, equality and fairness for all and have a genuine appreciation that having diverse people around our firm makes us richer. For G+T it is about diversity of thinking and integrating people's life experience into our work culture to ensure that we are as diverse as, and reflective of the wider community.
G+T has been recognised as a leading employer for diversity and gender equality. With our Diversity Council, we seek to drive awareness and continue to be interventionist in addressing issues of bias across:
Gender Equality
Cultural and Social Inclusion
Disability and Accessibility
First Nations
LGBTQI+
We are proud to partner with and support DWL in their pursuit to empower, mentor and support diverse women.
G+T’s Diversity and Inclusion representative is Karen Arkins.
Please feel free to visit and connect with G+T on any of its social media channels.
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Our lived experience, the challenges that many diverse women face, and the resilience demonstrated in the face of those challenges, are a testament to our strengths and capacities…
I am confident that DWL will continue to grow and provide continuing support, guidance and mentorship to diverse women in the legal profession.
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- Her Honour Judge Yehia Sc
DWL Board Member & 2022 Chair
King & Wood Mallesons is committed to building a stronger justice system, workplace and community. We are excited to partner with Diverse Women in Law to share knowledge and work together in advancing our commitment.
KWM recognises that addressing inequity is complex and requires action across multiple areas to drive effective transformation. We have over 50% representation of women across all non-partner levels, and continue striving towards our women in partnership target of 40%. We’re doing this with a range of initiatives, policies and programs that enable and support diverse women.
KWM is enabling diverse women through leadership and development initiatives and programs including:
Internal women’s leadership programs - Flourish and Empower
Participation in the Dr John Yu Fellowship and LGBTIQA+ Fellowship
Clerk mentoring program which fosters belonging and reinforces safe practices in the workplace
Our Cultural Diversity People Network which drives events in each of our centres, enabling mentoring, peer support, leadership and knowledge sharing.
Thinking about how we communicate and engage with each other to feel safe, respected, seen and heard. At KWM, we have developed a sector-leading 3-part animation series called ‘Words Can’ which explores the power of words to harm, heal and empower. You can view the videos here –Words can harm, Words can heal, Words can empower
Our diversity and inclusion policies are market leading, including our Parental Leave, Reproductive Health, Public Holiday Swap, and Family and Domestic Violence Leave policies. Our recruitment resources and practices ensure best practice in inclusive hiring. We recently conducted an audit (visual, language and content) of our recruitment collateral and made improvements to ensure we attract diverse talent.
We undertake multiple gender pay gap analyses each year to ensure that women are paid equitably. Please read our Gender Pay Gap Employer Statement to learn more about this work and our performance.
You can connect with KWM through:
Norton Rose Fulbright values diversity and the benefits diverse teams bring to our clients. We strive to create a culture of inclusion, one where our people have a sense of belonging and can bring their whole selves to work each and every day. Our gender diversity target of 40:40:20 focuses our recruitment efforts and development programs ensuring we always have a min of 40% women, 40% men with 20% flexibility (to create a truly inclusive target) across all of our cohorts including lawyers, partners and business services.
We are proud to partner with and support DWL’s mission that is consistent with our focus on equity and creating an even playing field for all. This includes a goal to become more culturally and racially diverse, to create a workplace free from barriers for those living with disability and people from all socio-economic backgrounds in addition to creating leading practices and inclusive policies for parents and carers and our LGBTIQ+ colleagues through our active Pride Network. DWL has a unique platform to help shape the future workforce of Norton Rose Fulbright, and the legal industry and we are excited to be part of that journey.
NRFA’s Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is Amelia Britton.
Please feel free to visit and connect with NRFA on any of its social media channels and read about NRFA’s diversity and inclusion strategy:
Instagram @nortonrosefulbright and @nortonrosefulbrightstudents
"Diverse teams and an inclusive working environment deliver a significant range of benefits."
At Ashurst, fostering an inclusive culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging is key to our vision of being the most progressive global law firm. This approach allows us to offer exceptional service to our clients and create an extraordinary place for our people to work. We are committed to driving gender equality and ensuring we focus on retaining and nurturing diverse talent by providing developmental opportunities to support our people to thrive.
Ashurst is proud to partner with and support DWL in our pursuit of increasing the representation of diverse women in the legal profession. DWL shares our commitment to improving diversity of all types and at all levels through their meaningful events, initiatives, and mentoring opportunities. Our partnership with DWL allows us to champion diversity in law and empower our diverse women to be change-makers and leaders within the profession.
Please feel free to visit and connect with Ashurst on any of our social media channels.
Bronze Sponsors
At Clyde & Co, creating an inclusive culture and maintaining a diverse workforce is vital to the way we operate. It’s crucial that our people feel happy, respected, and able to be their whole selves at work. Having a workforce from a variety of backgrounds and experiences helps us harness the power of different perspectives, to better innovate, problem solve, and drive change.
We continue to embed D&I into all our internal people processes and have added criteria on D&I as part of the promotion to Legal Director and Partner processes, and D&I questions are also being added to our Career Development Framework for all levels and roles.
Clyde & Co is therefore proud to partner with DWL in our common pursuit of supporting those who self-identify as women, non-binary and gender diverse throughout their legal studies and careers, as well as those who self-identify as being from an underrepresented background.
Clyde & Co’s diversity and inclusion representative is Christie McGregor.
Please connect with us via LinkedIn and find out more about our CSR initiatives here.
Our vision for a more diverse and inclusive workplace at Clayton Utz includes a focus on gender equality, cultural diversity, accessibility & inclusion, LGBTIQ inclusion, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Involvement with Diverse Women in Law (DWL) offers us an avenue to advance this agenda. The importance that DWL and its activities place on acknowledging broader diversity and intersectionality is particularly appealing.
Having recently refreshed our gender equality strategy and reaffirmed our status as a WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, we're excited about improving the visibility and engagement of our diverse women.
Clayton Utz's diversity and inclusion representative is Alison Woolsey.
You can learn more or connect with us through our Website and LinkedIn.
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DWL invites organisations whose values align with ours to contact us to discuss sponsorship options.