Squire Patton Boggs and Girls in Sports activities Regulation have been delighted to co-host a breakfast panel occasion in London on 9 Could 2024, showcasing 4 esteemed ladies working within the sports activities trade. The panellists included Edwina Haddon (Senior Counsel, Chelsea Soccer Membership), Janice Shardlow (Director of Governance, Commonwealth Video games Federation), Julia Lowis (Senior Authorized Counsel, Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company) and Catherine Ure (Authorized Counsel, Crimson Bull Racing).
The thought-provoking and full of life dialogue included:
- What initially attracted every panellist to sports activities regulation, and the way they in the end made it into the career and their present function
- Suggestions and tips for ladies in search of to maneuver into and upwards in sports activities regulation
- Profession challenges they’ve confronted and the way these have been overcome
- Present function and their typical working day
- The dynamics of working in a male-dominated trade
Our panellists highlighted their differing skilled backgrounds and profession routes, and defined how they overcame numerous challenges so as to obtain their profession objectives (each private and exterior hurdles). In addition they highlighted some key expertise for achievement, how perseverance and resilience are important, and the significance of a powerful and intentional skilled community.
Key soundbites from the session included:
On being a profitable sports activities lawyer:
“Drawback fixing is so necessary. It’s worthwhile to know what you might add to a sports activities organisation and show key qualities, corresponding to being logical, taking over a variety of data and dissecting it, figuring out options and constructing connections in an effort to affect others and obtain acceptable outcomes.”
Janice Shardlow, Director of Governance for the Commonwealth Video games Federation
“Perseverance is important. Be lawyer first, after which you may go into sports activities regulation.”
Edwina Haddon, Senior Counsel for Chelsea Soccer Membership
“Community as a lot as doable. Sports activities regulation is a small trade; many individuals are completely satisfied to have a name and chat. The extra webinars and occasions you may attend the higher.”
Julia Lowis, Senior Authorized Counsel for Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company
On working in a historically male-dominated trade:
“I’m fortunate that in my profession I’ve had feminine champions in my nook. Nonetheless, there’s nonetheless a necessity for growth. Extra ladies must be in senior roles to point out younger women it’s doable”.
Catherine Ure, Authorized Counsel for Crimson Bull Racing
“I feel society normally, largely as a consequence of social media, has over the previous couple of years gone backwards when it comes to attitudes to ladies…. and that permeates into sport. Personally I’ve been lucky in that I’ve primarily labored in equestrian sport which isn’t gendered and this has additionally fed into its administration – in consequence I haven’t confronted a few of the points that different ladies have.”
Janice Shardlow, Director of Governance for the Commonwealth Video games Federation
On working in an in-house authorized atmosphere:
“Working in-house all the time attracted me as it’s the easiest way to get a broad vary of workstreams and work with quite a lot of personalities. You need to develop into indispensable to your colleagues as they’re your shopper. It makes for a extremely optimistic, collaborative group atmosphere.”
Catherine Ure, Authorized Counsel for Crimson Bull Racing
“I really like having extra interplay with non-lawyers and feeling embedded inside an organisation which has objectives we’re all working in the direction of. I actually get pleasure from this side of being in-house, and it was a key think about leaving the self-employed Bar.”
Julia Lowis, Senior Authorized Counsel for Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company
Catherine Pitre, President of Girls in Sports activities Regulation, commented:
“There may be such a powerful pool of feminine expertise working in sports activities regulation, and in excessive stage positions. WISLaw is proud to have the ability to present them with the community and publicity to develop professionally. We’re very grateful to Squire Patton Boggs for co-hosting this breakfast panel dialogue, and to our audio system for offering their insights into their inspiring profession journeys and roles.”
Lucy Webster, Accomplice at Squire Patton Boggs and Co-Chair of Girls’s Sports activities, commented:
“We have been delighted to co-host this occasion with WISLaw and to listen to from 4 trailblazing ladies about their careers in sports activities regulation. Taking an lively function in elevating ladies is extraordinarily necessary to Squire Patton Boggs, and is a key focus of our work in ladies’s sports activities. We’re very proud to help WISLaw on this regard.”
Concerning the Squire Patton Boggs Girls’s Sport Group
We’re dedicated to supporting and facilitating the event of girls’s sport globally to make sure that its full potential is realised, and we imagine that the sporting and business alternatives are exponential as ladies’s sport turns into extra common and visual worldwide.
Our devoted ladies’s sport group includes main legal professionals throughout a number of disciplines and jurisdictions, with unrivalled trade information, connections and expertise. We’re approachable and proactive, and passionate concerning the development and affect of girls’s sport, advising our purchasers throughout the total spectrum of authorized providers, together with business, regulatory and contentious issues impacting the fast-growing ladies’s sport trade.
Our market-leading group of sports activities legal professionals has an actual understanding of the problems that matter and the best way to make an affect. We’re proud to be on the forefront of those important developments and to help our purchasers in reaching their goals and aspirations.
