In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show – brought to you by Lawyers Weekly’s sister brand, HR Leader – host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with ANZ senior procurement lawyer Porscia Lam about her legal career and decision to take a three-year break to care for her son, balancing work against family needs, what the response was like to her move, and how her perceptions of Australian workplaces have evolved in recent years.

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Lam also delves into the need for businesses to better accommodating parenting needs, identifying the business case for increased support, what works and doesn’t work when supporting parents with neurodiverse children, ingraining such support in the workplace’s culture, the role of law departments in driving such change and making sure such support remains, even against the pushback against DEI measures.

Lam recently wrote a book, called The Unlocking: An Autism Story, charting her journey from corporate lawyer to full time carer and back again. It was published through The Kind Press.

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