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7 Jan 2020News

Harrison Clark Rickerbys partner Inez Brown has become the first black president of the Birmingham Law Society. Brown said she was 'supremely proud' of being appointed to the role and flagged flexible working and technology among the areas she aimed to tackle, as well as introducing an initiative providing legal scholarships to two students from disadvantaged backgrounds through a partnership between the University of Wolverhampton and the University of Law. 28 July 2020

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