Linklaters has put together a new team to lead its diversity efforts alongside a push to ramp up the number of universities it targets for its graduate intake.

The group, called the ‘Diversity Action Team’, is headed by corporate partner and co-chair of the firm’s black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) network, Tom Shropshire (pictured), alongside counsel Paulette Mastin, London graduate recruitment partners Richard Hodgson and Simon Branigan and diversity partner Euan Clarke.