The ‘Fertility in the Workplace’ Miniseries, featuring Natalie Sutherland and Somaya Ouazzani,  delves into how fertility in the workplace can be addressed more openly and how law firms can do a better job at acknowledging the challenges faced around fertility. The series looks into tackling fertility issues as a lawyer, in addition to family planning and becoming parents.

Natalie Sutherland is a Partner at Burgess Mee, a Family Law Firm and their first fertility officer. Natalie has experience handling surrogacy matters, based in the UK and internationally. 

Somaya Ouazzani is the CEO and Founder of Mimoza Fleur, a boutique executive search firm, in the legal sector. Somaya was previously a family and divorce lawyer, at Kingsley Napley, and Russell-Cooke LLP. 

In the second minisode of the series, Rob, Natalie and Somaya discuss the following: 

• What law firms need to do to address fertility, family planning and parenting; 
• How law firms can create a safe space for everyone to discuss fertility in the working environment.

For further details, check out the episode show notes on Legallyspeakingpodcast.com. 

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