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ARMA Litigation is delighted to have continued our membership of the programme, a national initiative supporting employers to take a positive approach towards mental health at work. We are committed to healthy wellbeing and inclusivity, and regard this membership as a key part of our ethos towards better mental health in the workplace - and to ensure it is managed in a positive and productive way. People are at the centre of everything we do whether at work or society as a whole. Signing the programme’s Charter provides a declaration of an employer’s commitment to supporting the mental wellbeing of staff, and we urge all businesses to support similar initiatives.

We would like to welcome Bien Lodge to the ARMA team. Bien joins us for a work placement through social mobility charity,
Bien took the proactive step of immigrating from the Philippines to the UK in 2017 with the aspiration of becoming a solicitor. Like so many others, Bien was unable to attend university and is now pursuing his legal career via the apprenticeship route.
Bien will focus on completing tasks from ARMA Academy, a curriculum which the firm created to add value to work placement students, whilst also assisting with live cases. This placement provides Bien with his first step into the legal world gaining experience of working in a law firm. Bien has shown great determination and enthusiasm in his journey of becoming a solicitor and we are delighted to have him on board.
Corporate social responsibility is a key component of ARMA’s business ethos. We remain focused on supporting students with limited access as they embark on their career in law.

ARMA Litigation’s head of HR & Operations was privileged to have the opportunity recently to lead a discussion on ARMA’s Pro Bono legal work and how to enter the legal industry if you come from a non-traditional background with students from University Centre Leeds’ Policing and Law course.

The talk was part of an initiative in partnership with Luminate Education Group Education, whose mission is to transform lives in an inclusive and supportive environment to ensure students progress to a successful future particularly challenging and overcoming diversity and inclusion barriers. This aligns with ARMA’s philosophy to specifically support students who are first in their family in higher education or have challenged immigration and other stereotypes to build their own social capital and wish to forge a career in the law.

Well respected ARMA colleague Sandra Boateng was an ideal case study. Coming from a German/Ghanaian background she achieved a 1st class degree from Manchester Metropolitan with English as a second language. She spent 3 years applying and receiving countless rejections despite final interviews at numerous firms. With little social capital or links into law firms she found it very difficult to access her chosen career but she is now building a very successful practice at ARMA Litigation as we recognised her superb qualities.

We would like to congratulate our Trainee Solicitor, Sandra Boateng who has finally graduated from her Legal Practice Course (LPC) following COVID delays. Sandra started her LPC LLM at BPP University in Manchester in September 2019 and successfully completed both courses in September 2020, however, the graduation had to be postponed to March 2022.

Sandra previously achieved a 1st class degree from Manchester Metropolitan with English as a second language. She has been working with us on a full time basis since October 2020 and is a great asset to the team. Throughout her time with us, she has shown great resilience, patience and determination in reaching this well deserved recognition of her achievements!