22-05-2025
Patrick McCann: ‘Getting to the top is difficult for LGBTQIA people'
'Queer' lawyers are underrepresented in the leadership of City law firms and Patrick McCann wants to change that when he takes over the reins of the capital's law society.
'In the City legal sector there is a paucity of out LGBTQIA [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex and asexual] senior people,' says McCann, who has been named as the next chief executive of the City of London Law Society.
The 57-year-old left Linklaters this year, where he was director of learning at the 'magic circle' firm — he will now come out of retirement to take his new post from September.
'I can only remember three out queer managing partners of City law firms in the 40 years that I've been in and around law,'
