Christl
Hughes is a High Street practitioner with Barlows Solicitors in
Leicester City Centre specializing in Employment law and other
contentious work plus Practice Management.
She is a local conciliator for the Legal Complaints Service and a student mentor for De Montfort University.
She was articled in Knightsbridge and then moved to the Midlands shortly after qualifying. A former President of Leicestershire Law Society she has also sat on the Good Practice and Regional Liaison Committees of Resolution and is 2009 President of Leicester Medico Legal Society. As a longtime member of the AWS Christl has responsibility on the National Executive Committee for the Mentoring Scheme.
Joy has been a Fellow of the Institute
of Legal Executives since 1997 and a qualified Solicitor since 2001.
After completing her LPC at the College of Law, Guildford, Joy joined London Transport / TfL as a Contracts Lawyer primarily working on the transfer of the non-London Underground divisions of London Transport to TfL. In 2001, Joy joined Collyer Bristow as an Assistant Solicitor and then became an Associate in the Corporate Commercial Department in 2002 whilst at Collyer Bristow she was seconded to Philip Morris International in Switzerland where she remained for two years. In 2005, Joy co-founded VanCooten Trevors Recruitment and has been instrumental in the company’s growth and strategy.
Joy became a member of the AWS, London Group in 2005, becoming Vice Chair in 2007 and Chair in 2008. In 2008 she joined the AWS National Committee and became the Vice Chair March, 2010.
Joy is a firm believer in the rights of women and in particular women
solicitors and whole heartedly backs the AWS’s equal pay campaign.
vicechair@womensolicitors.org.uk
Anna is a partner in the property
department at Stitt & Co, a small, client-focused City firm.
She specializes in all aspects of commercial and residential property.
Anna pioneered flexible remote-working with the firm, to accommodate
the demands of a growing young family.
Anna has been a Citizens Advice Bureau volunteer adviser and for 5 years was chair of governors at a state primary school. She is also the AWS member for the Law Society Council Membership Committee.
deputyvicechair@womensolicitors.org.uk
Penny has been a solicitor since 1979 and now works for clients in marriage and relationship breakdown at specialist family law firm Blacklaws Davis in south London.
With some friends she started a branch of the AWS in the East Midlands in the early 1990s. She later joined the AWS London Group committee and was treasurer “just before the turn of the century” and chairwoman in the year 2009/2010.
Penny lives in London NW6 with her three children. She is very involved in Legal Aid campaigns and is training coordinator for the Legal Aid Practitioner's Group. She tries to keep fit with aerobics and jogging.
treasurer@womensolicitors.org.uk
Tilly is a
partner at Alan
Edwards & Co in Notting Hill, London. She specialises in
housing and general litigation work. Tilly undertakes both publicly
funded and private work. She is a member of the Housing Law
Practitioners Group and Legal Action Group.
Tilly has a particular interest in the proposed changes to public funding and women in the judiciary. She has been involved with the AWS campaign to encourage more women to apply for judicial and public appointments which was launched in January 2009.
She writes on a regular basis for the AWS magazine LINK and has also had a number of articles published in The Times on issues relevant to women and the law.
In addition to the office-holders shown above the Executive Committee consists of solicitors drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds, organisations and specialisms. The current Committee consists of partners and associates in City, West End and regional firms, a central government lawyer, a sole practitioner, in-house counsel, a legal recruitment consultant and a legal writer.
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