Usually this is a week spent running from event to event, leaving some early so as not to be late to the next one. Hopefully one up-side of this year’s Dublin Pride celebrations taking place virtually is that we can comfortably attend more events from our own couches. In this post, we have listed a...
OUTLAW MESSAGE FOR PRIDE 2020 For so many reasons, it is a Pride month like no other. We cannot celebrate in the usual way, sharing spaces with our community and allies, but we will seek out different ways to mark Pride this month until we can all see each other again, in person. At OUTLaw...
In keeping with our aim to promote respectful LGBT+ inclusion across the Irish legal community, OUTLaw is pleased to share its bullying and harassment policy for our events. OUTLaw Anti-Bullying Harassment Policy
OUTLaw Network is one year old! To celebrate our first year we asked some of our members and supporters to share their thoughts on OUTLaw. We will be sharing those videos this week. Here is David Widger Partner and Head of Corporate and M&A in @ALGoodbody, one of our founding firms ...
We are delighted to be short-listed for a GALAS Award in the Employee Resource Group category. The GALAS honour the contributions of people, companies and organisations to the Irish LGBT+ community. Since our launch this time last year we have worked to actively promote LGBT+ diversity in the workplace across the legal sector. We are...
OUTLaw held a “Back to School Event” event, a collaborative panel discussion hosted by Gerard James of William Fry and Maeve Delargy of the Arthur Cox alliance network on a broad range of topics around LGBT+ issues / experiences in the education system (from primary school through to law school). Education reassures, it supports and...
On 18 June 2019 OUTLaw Network held an event in collaboration with LGBT Ireland and the Lesbian Lawyers Network entitled “Recognising Rainbow Families: How close is the law to providing legal rights for LGBT+ parents and their children?“. The event, hosted by A&L Goodbody, was attended by colleagues from across the legal community. For more information,...
OUTLaw Network marched in its first Dublin Pride Parade last Saturday, surrounded by friends and colleagues from across the legal community. We had a wonderful day! 300 people gathered in the Gresham Hotel from 11am for face painting, breakfast treats and networking before being joined by our wonderful DJ Miss Pixie Woo who kindly posed...
Have you ever gone to the zoo but been refused a family ticket because the cashier didn’t consider you a proper family? Have you ever had to refuse the offer of a promotion because it required you to move your family to another country where your rights were not recognised? Have you ever been unable...