Jeanette Burgess
Walker Morris LLP
Jeanette heads the Regulatory & Compliance team at Walker Morris. She specialises in regulatory law and is well known for her retail finance and consumer law expertise. She leads a varied practice of 14 lawyers, serving both national and international clients.
Jeanette takes an active leadership role in driving D&I forward within the firm. She has often shared personal stories to help people understand and be more empathetic towards Diversity and Inclusion. She is an active member of the firm's racial diversity committee, Culture Club, and provides support in terms of encouraging and inspiring people in the committee to create events and programmes to help improve Walker Morris' racial diversity and experience for ethnic minority employees.
Jeanette is also a member of the Stronger Together network, which is a Leeds city-wide network for racial diversity, equality and inclusion. It aims to raise the profile of racial diversity within the legal and accountancy professions in Leeds.