Celebrating Pride
Being out at work, allyship and contributing to LGBTQIA+ equality through pro bono work: our people share their experiences of inclusion and support at Allens.
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ALLin
ALLin is Allens' LGBTQIA+ employee network. To celebrate Pride Month, we joined forces with the ALLin committee and asked our people to share the impact ALLin has made in their lives.
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Georgie Bills
For me, pride means showing up in the ways that you can. That means different things for different people, but I think it's particularly cool when allies show real pride in the fact they are allies.
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Dan Taha
I come from a conservative background where growing up I didn't have much, if any, exposure to the LGBTQIA+ community. It wasn't until I became a lawyer that I had any real exposure to the community and met people like me.
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Gabi Stricker-Phelps
My early experiences with legal reform and the incredible impact that legal change can have on individual lives, families and society more broadly is what drew me to pursue a career in law. I feel grateful to work at Allens, a place that values excellence and merit while embracing people who have had such a diversity of life experience.
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Curtis Haas
Law student Curtis Haas was the first recipient of the Allens Pinnacle Scholarship, which provides educational mentoring support to young people who identify as LGBTQIA+ and are interested in a career in law.
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Alexander Batsis
Despite my challenges (which many members of the LGBTQ+ community still face), I came out stronger and more determined than ever to live as my true self. This is what pride means to me: living life truthfully and with freedom.
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Kate Sinclair
As an outspoken Aboriginal and lesbian, I wasn't sure that I would find my people at Allens. But all my ideas about the firm were flipped when I joined.
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Andrew Wilcock
This case was the highlight of my career to that point. Such a strong and unequivocal statement from the country's highest court represented an important brick in the road towards expunging discrimination against intersex and gender diverse people from Australian law.
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Anna Brown
There is still work to do – difficult and complex work, which lawyers are in a unique position to advance. The high-quality legal assistance that Allens provides to organisations like Equality Australia is crucial to continuing it.
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Igor Bogdanich
One question I often ask myself is how I can help people really be themselves at work, and do that comfortably and effortlessly. As a partner of a firm that is committed to being 'in it together', I like knowing that I can play a role as an ally in fostering true inclusion.