The vast majority of my clients are private individuals, and small talk is a necessary part of developing rapport and maintaining client relationships. Or don’t they? One doesn’t have to listen for very long to idle small talk in the office, or at a networking event, to hear references to one of the interlocutors’ opposite sex spouse or partner. This should not be an earth shattering revelation I can think of very few heterosexual people I know who go around proclaiming their sexual orientation. On the face of them, all these responses are valid but scratch beneath the surface and things are not quite so simple.Īs I mention above, I am ‘out’ at work: while I do not go around advertising my sexual orientation, I also do not hide it. When I tell people this, I often get a similar response: “why does it matter?” “why would your client need know?” “Your sexual orientation is none of your client’s business…”. Social attitudes take time to catch up with laws. For example, it is only this month that the screening questions asked of potential blood donors were changed such that men who have had sexual contact with another man in the last three months can donate. It is true, LGBT+ rights have advanced enormously over recent decades, but there are still gaps. The answer to that question is ‘not yet’.
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As time has gone on, and I have become more confident in myself, I am also ‘out’ to my professional contacts outside the firm. Thinking about it though, those falling into the latter category have been few and far between. I have also taken some comfort that, since the early noughties, sexual orientation has been a protected characteristic, and have rather assumed that those who disapproved of my sexual orientation in any way would have the good sense to keep quiet. I have always been ‘out’ at work this is no doubt due to the fact that both the firm in which I trained (a small firm in the City) and my present firm in which I have spent getting on for 14 years, have been very supportive places in which to work, replete with intelligent, open-minded colleagues. Celebrating excellence across the European legal marketġ December 2021 | virtual ceremony | 14:00 – 15:00 GMT
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