Solicitors charity offers new ‘reverse mentoring’ toolkit to legal employers

Lawyers welfare charity Law Care has joined with the University of Leeds to launch a new ‘Reverse Mentoring Toolkit’ to assist legal employers in improving the mental health of their staff.

Reverse mentoring is a practice where junior staff switch roles with seniors in mentoring one another. Step by step advice is given by the toolkit to enable employers to use reverse mentoring in a safe and effective way, with the aim of improving the equality, inclusion and wellbeing of employees.

Law Care said that many junior and aspiring lawyers feel they are not represented well in the industry. The Reverse Mentoring Toolkit is designed to highlight these issues with employers, with the aim of creating a better working environment, it added.

Law Care and the University of Leeds have “highlighted a key gap in the sector: a lack of evaluation around equity, inclusion and wellness initiatives’’ a spokesperson said.

The toolkit is available to any organization in the legal sector and is made available free-of-charge. It can be used by those with prior experience in reverse mentoring, or for those who have not used it before.

Law Care have been supporting lawyers for 25 years as the mental health charity of the legal sector by creating an accessible platform for legal institutions to incorporate will expand the welfare of employees of legal organisations.

More information can be found at www.lawcare.org.uk/reverse

Megan Bedlow