Community

The team at Webster Dixon is dedicated to helping the community, whether it is fundraising for charities or giving keynote speeches.  Listed below are a select few examples of how the Webster Dixon team has helped the community:

• Michael Webster visited Nigeria as part of a UK trade mission organised by the International Division of the Law Society and UKTI (UK Trade & Investment).  The trade mission attended a conference in Abuja hosted by the Nigerian Bar Association and had various high-level meetings in the capital, Lagos.
• Dawn Dixon was involved in the Cancer Research UK Race for Life at Herne Bay which was held on Saturday, 28 June 2008.  Race for Life is Cancer Research UK’s flagship event that has grown to become the UK’s largest women-only fundraising event.  Dawn participated as one of the organisers – next year she hopes to be one of the runners.  In 2007 Cancer Research UK brought together some 66,000 women to walk, jog or run 5k to raise £40 million for Cancer Research UK, the world's leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research.  To learn more about the event, please go to  www.raceforlife.org
• As a firm we all participated in the 4^th London Legal Support Trust Walk held on 19 May 2008.  The London Legal Support Trust supports the work of social welfare legal centres in London and the Home Counties.  Funds raised are targeted to assist requests for help from the centres.  This financial aid helps the legal centres overcome funding crises, develop new services, support appeals and improve their premises. 
• Dawn Dixon spoke at the Commonwealth Lawyers Association 25^th Anniversary Conference held from 16 to 19 October 2008. Dawn’s talk was entitled “Technology and the Law – A Tool or a Master?”. The Chair of her session was Mr Paul Marsh, the current President of the Law Society of England and Wales. The event took place at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
• Michael Webster recently gave a speech at the launch of the BSN (Black Solicitors Network) City Group.  The BSN City Group is the third regional group of the Black Solicitors Network and was set up to provide support, career development advice and networking opportunities for commercial BME solicitors in private practice and in-house counsel. 
• Michael Webster gave a talk on 8 November 2008 on entrepreneurship and the legal profession at the Chart Your Own Course (CYOC) Conference.  Michael addressed 150 US lawyers and in-house counsel on the development and management of private practice in a UK law firm.