PAMELA - Inaugural Event with Kate Muir

We’re delighted to announce the details of the inaugural event for PAMELA, the new Peri-Menopausal and Menopausal Legal Aid Support Network. Kindly hosted by leading legal aid firm Hodge Jones & Allen, the event will bring people together from across the legal aid sector to share their experiences and hear from network founder Dr Laura Janes and writer and women’s health expert Kate Muir.

Running orderfor the event

18.30 - Drinks, nibbles and networking

19.00 - Dr Laura Janes will introduce women’s health expert, documentary maker, and author Kate Muir, who will discuss how perimenopause and menopause affects women at work, particularly in the legal aid sector. Kate will explain the symptoms, treatment and mental health effects of menopause - and how changing hormones affect our careers. Understanding menopausal changes in clients matters too, as well as signposting them to good advice.

Kate’s presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A.

20.00 - Networking and drinks

More about PAMELA, the Peri-Menopausal and Menopausal Legal Aid Support Network: A new support network focused on the implications of the (peri)menopause for legal aid lawyers and the advice sector.

The network will provide opportunities for sharing resources and ideas including policies, practices and information, as well as a regular space for women to connect.

The network will create both physical and virtual places to share information and experiences to help legal aid and advice workers support each other and our clients.

For more information, visit our website: https://lapg.co.uk/campaigning-2/

Kate Muir is a women’s health expert, investigative journalist and documentary maker. She produced two ground-breaking Channel 4 menopause documentaries, presented by Davina McCall, which ignited a massive conversation among women. She is the author Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask).

Kate’s new book, out in summer 2025, is How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis.

Follow Kate on Instagram: @menoscandal

This event is free but spaces are limited and refreshments are being provided by HJA: if you book and cannot come, please notify us as soon as possible so we can allocate your place to somebody who can attend.

Please also note that the access to and from the bar at HJA is stepped/below ground floor so access cannot be provided to those in wheelchairs. Help with steps with assistance /aids possible but wheelchairs can only access the atrium area (where the main event will take place) not the bar.