Linklaters is consulting with staff on an updated global diversity and inclusion strategy for the 2015-16 financial year, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing.

Resilience training will be an important part of the plan, which comes after the firm first introduced stress awareness and management programmes in 2010 and after it became a founder member of the City Mental Health Alliance in October 2013.

The updated strategy will see Linklaters build on suggestions it received in a report into its culture conducted as part of being awarded the UK National Equality Standard earlier this year.

Linklaters is not looking to start up a whole raft of new programmes but instead plans to look at how its existing firm-wide initiatives are communicated to staff so they have a better understanding of how to get involved or seek support.

"We are building on great foundations," said Daniel Danso, Linklaters' diversity manager. "We are giving people the chance to understand what we are doing, rather than just hopping on a bandwagon or trying to capture some kind of zeitgeist by launching programmes for the sake of it."

This year has seen many firms take a harder look at psychological wellbeing for both their senior and junior staff. In January Hogan Lovells introduced an on-site counselling service as part of a wider wellbeing awareness review, which allowed staff access to a firm-based counsellor two days a week.

In April, Clifford Chance trialled widening its trainee psychological well-being scheme to include senior associates, while Norton Rose Fulbright piloted its 'Building Resilience' workshop, with work experience students over the summer.

Separately, following Linklaters' launch of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Ally network in October, every practice group head at Linklaters has now signed up as an 'Executive Ally'.

In the new year, Linklaters will be working with LGBT charity Stonewall to develop awareness raising sessions looking at ways those on the Ally programme can show their support for the LGBT community in a more tangible way.