Category: Members

Senior Legal Counsel at Vodafone
‘Who would have thought that drawing cartoons could support social justice?’

Legal Counsel – WWF International
‘LAP is about more than offering pro bono services. It’s taking an active position to fight poverty’

Associate at Gowling WLG, Banking & Finance Team, and JLAP Lead
‘Students lack opportunities to get involved in the more developmental, access-to-justice sides of law’

GDL graduate, The University of Law
LAP student editorial team member since January 2021
‘With the power of your legal knowledge, you need to do something to uplift others’

Head of European Programmes and Local Growth at Department for Communities and Local Government
‘The analytical skills you get from being a lawyer are valuable to charities’

UCL law graduate, summer 2021
President of UCL’s JLAP Society from August 2020
‘It has a very real impact when you speak to people who don’t have access to the legal system because of money. I wanted to study how we could fix that’

Senior partner at Kigali Attorneys Chamber, Rwanda
‘Lawyers should be an equaliser; always being on the side of the poor not the powerful’

Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers – specialist in immigration, human rights and public law
‘I don’t think there’s another organisation that harnesses the energy in the legal profession for a common cause’