Legal Voices for the Future

❄️ As Legal Voices for the Future is run entirely by the energy and passion of our volunteer Stewardship Committee, we will be taking a holiday break to recharge and plan for what lies ahead in 2025! 🌟 We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all of our members, hosts, speakers, partnerships and venues that have helped us to host our knowledge sessions this year - we are so grateful 💚! 🎥 If you’d like to catch up on any of our 2024 knowledge sessions, visit our Website https://lnkd.in/eEDsVHUe to access summaries and recordings (including a newly uploaded recording for our recent December session on Biodiversity Net Gain and Nature Recovery!) 🎥 💥We have a very exciting line up to share for the first half of 2025!💥 Keep an eye out here and on our Website https://lnkd.in/e8APsPuw for posts about the sessions and sign-up links to attend in person or online 👀 and don’t forget to sign up as a member for early email updates and access to member only webinars! ❄️Wishing you all a happy holiday season and a peaceful New Year, and we look forward to seeing many of you in early 2025! ❄️ #climatechange #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell

🌱 LIMITED SPACES REMAINING - Knowledge Session at Wakelyns Farm 🌱 Thank you to everyone who's already expressed interest in attending LVF's unique knowledge session at Wakelyns Farm (an organic agroforestry hub in Suffolk) on 10-11 May 2025. It is shaping up to be a great one! 📢 A reminder that the deadline to sign up is 🔜 15th December. There are still some very limited spots available and full details have been shared by email to our membership. We are taking expressions of interest by email and will fill the spaces on a first come, first served basis. 🌾The knowledge session will be led by the co-owner of Wakelyns Farm, David Wolfe who is also a KC at Matrix and who has been involved in some of the most important environmental judicial challenges in the UK, including on sewage pollution, the HS2 expansion and the Friends of the Earth challenge to the previous government’s net zero strategy. 🌾On the farm, attendees would also have the chance to learn about agroforestry and organic farming and even participate in volunteering activities. 🌾This will be a day-long weekend event, with the possibility of an overnight stay. We look forward to the opportunity to do something different with our members! #climatechange #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers  Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell

🎉 🎄 ❄️  It’s not too late to sign up to LVF’s Christmas Social happening TONIGHT from 6.30pm - we hope you can join! ❄️  🎄 🎉 ❓ What❓: an informal get together to network and celebrate everything we’ve learnt with LVF throughout 2024, before we break for Christmas! As our second year comes to a close, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank key members of the LVF community who have supported us this year, and look forward to gathering LVF members together to relax and have some festive fun! ❓When❓: TODAY (Tuesday 10 December 2024), 6.30pm onwards. ❓ Where❓ : The Last Judgment, Chancery Lane, London. ❓How❓: Please register for the event here, so we can keep track of numbers: https://lnkd.in/eDwucBHz #climatechange #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell

🌱Want to become a member of Legal Voices for the Future? Did you know we now have our website? 🌱 🍃Legal Voices for the Future is collaborative learning forum established and run by early career practitioners from different areas of the legal profession! 🍃Our objective is to  give a voice to a new generation of lawyers on the most pressing issues facing us: the climate and ecological crises. 🍃We do this by hosting monthly knowledge sessions open to everyone - lawyers and non-lawyers - but we also host member only webinars to provide members with an informal way to connect with interesting speakers, to ask engaging questions and to learn even more about the climate and ecological crises! 🍃We want to empower our members to use the law as a force for positive change and to collaborate on solutions to climate change and related societal injustices. 🍃We also recognise the importance of cross-sector collaboration and encourage our members and friends of LVF to engage in discussions and develop valuable relationships beyond law. If you would like to join as a member click the sign up link below - it’s free! ⬇️ A link to our website is also in the comments #Climatelawyers #ESG #collaboration #legalvoicesforthefuture Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell

🎉 🎄 ❄️  Our Christmas Social is Tuesday next week - we hope you can join! ❄️  🎄 🎉 ❓ What❓: an informal get together to network and celebrate everything we’ve learnt with LVF throughout 2024, before we break for Christmas! As our second year comes to a close, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank key members of the LVF community who have supported us this year, and look forward to gathering LVF members together to relax and have some festive fun! ❓When❓: Tuesday 10 December 2024, 6.30pm onwards. ❓ Where❓ : The Last Judgment, Chancery Lane, London. ❓How❓: Please register for the event using the link in the comments, so we can keep track of numbers 👇 #climatechange #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell

🎥 Have you seen our fundraising platform - Buy me a coffee? We would really appreciate your help, but why do we need it? ➡️ All our knowledge sessions are run on the volunteer energy of many people - our Stewardship Committee, facilitators, photographers, members, quest interviewees, tech support… and the list goes on and on. We are covered where the main currency is energy 🙏 ➡️ The fundraiser would help us with catering (snacks and drinks) for our events, where such catering is not provided by the venue, as well as with securing a paid venue in case we cannot find a pro bono one. ➡️ Any funds raised help us with running costs for our website, which keeps all our materials accessible in one place - and in the long run will help us to update and improve our website. By helping us you help young lawyers gain easy access to high-quality peer-to-peer education on important ecological and societal issues entirely for free - a cause many no doubt support! 🙏 Every donation is much appreciated 🙏 https://lnkd.in/eyjUnBFf   https://lnkd.in/gSXv6vrz #climatechange #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell

🙏 We’d like to extend a big thank you to Harriet Hall for the incredibly engaging knowledge session delivered this week on 🌳 Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and Nature Recovery 🌳 🙏 The session helped us to understand what is meant by ‘nature recovery’ and the legislation underpinning mandatory BNG in England, which came into force this year for most development, and what this requires of developers. We also explored how offsite BNG offers an opportunity to finance habitat creation projects. 🙏 We extend our gratitude to the expert panellists for this session Molly Biddell, Henry Parkinson, Isabel Sgambellone and Juliet Rose who shared their fantastic insights and experiences on this topic. The range of perspectives across our panellists and the exciting projects that they are involved with made for a really interesting discussion! 🖼️We also enjoyed reviewing our creative content for this session, a short extract from the book ‘The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future’ by Fiona Reynolds. If you missed the session and would like to catch up, a recording of the session will shortly be made available on our website and YouTube channel. We look forward to hopefully seeing lots of you again at our Christmas social next week on Tuesday 10th December. Sign up link is in the comments!  👇 Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma ShortHarriet Hall Catríona Campbell   #ESG #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers #BNG #biodiversity #biodiversitynetgain #nature

📢 LAST CALL - sign up for our knowledge session on 🌳 Biodiversity Net Gain and Nature Recovery 🌳 this evening from 6.30pm 📣 ✅ In person tickets have now SOLD OUT but it’s not too late to sign up to attend online here: https://lnkd.in/ePQYTM8p 👀 Below is what we will explore! 👀 This session will be led by LVF’s Harriet Hall alongside guest speakers Isabel Sgambellone Molly Biddell, Henry Parkinson and Juliet Rose     During this knowledge session we will explore: 🐝 The current state of nature in England 🐛 The legal framework in place for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) 🐞 Market creation for offsite biodiversity credits 🐜 How BNG can be legally secured For the creative content part of the session, we will be reflecting on a short extract from the book ‘The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future’ by Dame Fiona Reynolds, former Director-General of the National Trust.   We look forward to seeing lots of you at the Grantham Research Institute or online this evening! Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell #ESG #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers #BNG #biodiversity #biodiversitynetgain #nature

📢 Final call for facilitators📢 We need facilitators for our upcoming knowledge session on 🌳 Biodiversity Net Gain and Nature Recovery 🌳 which is taking place tomorrow at 18.30 at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment and online! We are looking for volunteers who can help facilitate discussions and online break-out rooms during the workshop in which we will discuss the creative content.  The role of a facilitator will include:  💬  Getting acquainted with the creative content- which is a short extract from the book ‘The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future’ by Dame Fiona Reynolds, former Director-General of the National Trust.   💬  Attending an online briefing call/ reviewing email instructions from Harriet Hall who will lead this knowledge session; and 💬  Attending the knowledge session in person or via Teams/Zoom and facilitating discussion in small groups or break out rooms.     ❓ Would you like to volunteer❓  Then sign up by filling in the questionnaire in the comments 👇   ❓ Have you not yet signed up for this knowledge session❓  Link to join the session is in the comments 👇 Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell #ESG #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers #BNG #biodiversity #biodiversitynetgain #nature Photo by Tom Allport on Unsplash

🐝 Our December knowledge session on 🌳 Biodiversity Net Gain and Nature Recovery 🌳 is right around the corner and we hope you can join! 🐛 We are thrilled to be hosting this event with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment or online on Tuesday 3 December at 18:30! 🐞 This session will explore the state of nature in England and the legal framework in place for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG). The session will go on to explore the challenges and opportunities of BNG from a developer and landowner perspective, the concept of market creation for offsite biodiversity gains and how BNG can be legally secured. 🐜 Harriet will be joined by Molly Biddell Isabel Sgambellone Henry Parkinson and Juliet Rose for what promises to be a very engaging panel discussion on BNG. 🐌 As part of our creative content we will be reflecting on a short extract from the book ‘The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future’ by Dame Fiona Reynolds, former Director-General of the National Trust.  To sign up for this session in person or online, follow the registration link in the comments 👇   Ming Zee Tee Sarah Hill-Smith Flora Curtis Yomna Elewa Marina Soares Riley Forson Dominika Leitane Emma Short Harriet Hall Catríona Campbell #ESG #legalvoicesforthefuture #lawyers #BNG #biodiversity #biodiversitynetgain #nature Photo by Frank Cone on Unsplash.