Four law firm leaders have come together to form a network which aims to bring ambitious women together to connect, share insight and support each other.
Female Leaders Network has been described by its co-founders as “not another networking group where business cards are swapped and masks stay on”.
Instead, the fledgling group is designed to be a “small, intentional community for women who want honest conversation, meaningful connection, and genuine support”.
Founded by Tasnim Khalid, founder of Private Client Solicitors (pictured top right), Eimear Maguire, co-founder of Maguire Family Law (top left), Claire Livesey, practice director at Latitude Law (bottom left), and Clare Brookfield, business development manager at Primas Law (bottom right), the network wants to encourage women to share the challenges they’ve experience in the working world, share advice on how to overcome them, and help the next generation of career women.
“We want to share our diverse experience for the benefit of each other,” explained Khalid.
“Our founders came to the conclusion that we have been pushing through with our heads down trying to achieve without drawing breath to realise there are so many of us in the same boat who could teach us something.
“Sometimes getting the job done and running a home life means there’s little time to invest in our personal development with peers. We also realise how important it is for us to speak to budding future leaders and how we can help on their professional journey.”
The inaugural event will take place on Friday 6 February in Manchester, and is open to business and industry leaders from all sectors.
“As all four founders of this network are from the legal sector we have naturally good connections and therefore a fair proportion of the network is and will be legal,” Maguire said.
“But we really want to be more diverse and are actively seeking women from other sectors. We currently have incredible representatives from financial, medical, coaching, recruitment, fashion, retail and manufacturing.”
The event will be “select and intimate” so the women can get to know each other, Livesey explained. She added:
“It’s an intimate space, operating under Chatham House rules, where women can speak openly, share experiences, learn from one another, and support each other without judgement or competition.”
Brookfield concluded:
“There will be mentoring, learning, laughter, frustration, perspective and real takeaways at every gathering. Most importantly, there will be a sisterhood of women who genuinely want to see each other succeed.”
The co-founders welcome enquiries from women interested in joining the group, and can be contacted on LinkedIn: Eimear Maguire, Tasnim Khalid, Claire Livesey, Clare Brookfield
