Diversity

We are required to collect diversity data by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

We also publish as much of the data as we feel comfortable publishing, recognising that anonymisation is not going to be effective in a two-person law firm.

Our diversity

  • Sandra is female. Neil is male. Neil is Sandra's husband.
  • 50% of the directors of decoded.legal are women. 50% are men. We are both cis. We are both heterosexual.
  • Neil has a beard. Sandra doesn't. (Neither having a beard, nor reporting on it, is required by the SRA. Yet.)
  • We are both between 35 and 44. Just. Neil looks like the older one, but actually...
  • We have no religion or belief, but Neil prefers vim over emacs.
  • We both went to school, and we have both been to university. (Quite a lot, really: between us, we have an LLB, a BA, a PgDL, two PgDLPs, an LLM (in the legal sense, not the AI sense), an MA, and a now-abandoned PhD.) Even our website has a certificate, from Let's Encrypt.
  • We are both white and British, unless it is sunny, in which case we are slightly red and British.
  • decoded.legal is "Shibboleet" compliant.
  • Most of our servers run Debian, but some run Ubuntu.