Creating Pathways On Tuesday 26 July 2016, BSN City Group launched its Creating Pathways through Mentoring and Sponsorship programme at an event hosted by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. This followed a successful pilot programme in 2014/2015, aimed at providing mid-level BME lawyers with access to insights and perspectives on professional development from outside their organisations and to develop cross-firm mentoring relationships between senior and mid-level BME lawyers both in private practice and in-house. The programme has a one year term, commencing in Autumn 2016, and involves a formal application process, the result of which will be notified to applicants in September/October 2016.  The programme will be supplemented with periodic professional/leadership skills workshop seminars hosted by our sponsor firms and institutions around the City. If you are an aspirational BME lawyer (in private practice or in-house) with approximately 2-6 PQE and are interested in joining the programme as a mentee, please complete the Mentee application form which can be downloaded from BSN - Mentoring Application Form and email it to mentoring@blacksolicitorsnetwork.org  with the heading ‘Mentee Application’ by 5 September 2016. If you are a senior lawyer (Counsel/Partner or Senior In-house Counsel)  and are interested in participating in the programme as a mentor, please contact us at mentoring@blacksolicitorsnetwork.org for further information.   We welcome mentors from BME and non-BME backgrounds to participate in the programme. If you have any queries regarding the programme, please email mentoring@blacksolicitorsnetwork.org. Creating Pathways is an initiative of: BSNLOGO[1]