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Reverse mentoring toolkit

LawCare and the University of Leeds have created a reverse mentoring toolkit to help law firms and legal organisations become more inclusive, supportive, and fairer places to work. The reverse mentoring toolkit is available to download now on The University of Leeds website.

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The reverse mentoring toolkit is available to download now.

In reverse mentoring, junior staff or people from underrepresented backgrounds mentor more senior colleagues. It’s a way to share lived experiences, build understanding, and challenge traditional hierarchies. This approach helps organisations listen to voices that are often left out of important conversations.

Why it matters

Progress on improving equality, inclusion and wellbeing has been too slow and junior and aspiring lawyers are often not sufficiently involved. LawCare and the University of Leeds created this toolkit to help address that.

The toolkit gives step-by-step advice for setting up a reverse mentoring programme that is safe, properly considered, and useful – not just a tick-box exercise.

Who is the toolkit for?

This free resource is for any legal workplace – large or small, in any part of the legal sector. Whether you’ve never tried reverse mentoring before or you’re looking to improve what you’re already doing, this toolkit can help.

The toolkit will help you:

Download the toolkit

Reverse mentoring in the legal profession – a practical toolkit for kickstarting an inclusive scheme

What’s in the toolkit?

Rationale

Preparation

Key steps in setting up your reverse mentoring scheme (page 11 to 13):

Determining your purpose and objectives (page 14 to 15).

Delivery

Supplementary documents

Extra resources on the University of Leeds project page

The project page includes extra resources to download: 

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