We warmly invite you to join, or renew if your membership is lapsed. Members that have lapsed and new members may join valid to 30 June 2022.  Auto renew and pre-payment options are available. Half year rates are now available!

Join us in representing women lawyers and the wider profession, as we have for almost 70 years. We will continue to provide leadership in matters affecting women and the legal profession, by driving and advocating for change.

5.30pm Friday 11 February 2022 at UUSC

Guest Speaker: The Honourable Virginia Bell AC, Patron of WLANSW (Pictured back centre with WLANSW President Larissa Andelman and 2020 judicial guests)

It is with great pleasure that we acknowledge the achievements of women in law and appointments to the bench since our last event in February 2020. Please join us and distinguished guests in celebrating the achievements of these women in the judiciary.

Please click here for further details and to book.

POSTPONED DUE TO CURRENT COVID SITUATION. We will advise the new date when confirmed. Apologies for any inconvenience and we look forward to seeing you sometime soon. 

7pm Friday 11 March 2022 at Sheraton Grand Sydney Hyde Park.

Project update on ARC Linkage (LP190100966)

This project investigates how women and men understand and experience the changing nature of work in the law. Using innovative and engaged research design, the project will generate new knowledge about the gendered dimensions of workplace change and workplace dynamics.

The project is a collaboration with the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, the Law Society of NSW, and the Women Lawyers Association of NSW.

Click here to read the report.

This is the eighth year of the law firm comparison project.

Renee Bianchi, WLANSW President, says: “It is encouraging that our data shows continual improvement in the number of women in senior leadership positions in the profession, and a reduction in firms promoting only men to partnership.
We hope that the flexible work practices that have been adopted through the pandemic will continue and this will lead to greater diversity in workplace culture and structure.
More work needs to be done. Cultural change cannot continue at a glacial pace if we wish to retain and promote greater numbers of women in the legal profession.”