Volunteers needed – Open Day for Women and Gender Diverse Law Students

01/10/2024

Diversity

The Diversity and Equality Committee and the Women Barristers Forum are hosting the NSW Bar Association Open Day for Women and Gender Diverse Law Students on Friday, 18 October 2024. The purpose of the Open Day is to inform women and gender diverse law students about a career at the NSW Bar and to provide them with the opportunity to observe the work of judges and barristers in their day-to-day practice.

The Diversity and Equality Committee and the Women Barristers Forum are seeking barristers to volunteer to assist with taking groups of women and gender diverse law students in their penultimate and final year to courts and chambers between 9:30am–12:00pm on Friday, 18 October 2024.

Volunteer barristers will be allocated a small group of students to take to a court to observe proceedings, as well as to their chambers to show the students what chambers look like and to have an informal conversation about day-to-day life as a barrister and pathways to joining the NSW Bar. Ideally, each student group will be jointly led by two barristers from the same chambers or two barristers who volunteer to co-lead a group together.

Prior to the visits to courts and chambers, the students will listen to a panel discussion in the Bar Association’s Common Room with the Hon Justice Kristina Stern, the Hon Justice Wendy Abraham, her Honour Deputy Chief Magistrate Sharon Freund and Sharyn Hall SC.

If you are able to volunteer your time, please complete the expression of interest form here.

Thank you in advance. The success of the Open Day depends upon the generosity of the barristers who kindly volunteer their time.