The executive committee consists of the executive plus the following:
Dawn Dixon is head of the property and private client departments, and the
leasehold reform unit, at the City practice she co-founded, Webster Dixon.
Dawn has wide-ranging professional and community interests. She chaired the AWS in 2006/7, was legal counsel for the Council for Education in World Citizenship and is an advisor to the College of Law's London branch.
Dawn is a member of the Leasehold Enfranchisement Advisory Service panel and the Minority Lawyers Conference committee. She was formerly attached to other legal panels including Diversity in Law with Global Graduates Training Limited, the Legal Services Commission funding reviews and costs committees and the Law Society's Professional Negligence Panel.
Dawn has spoken at numerous conferences and events on legal issues, diversity in the workplace and women in business.
Dawn has received extensive coverage in the press. She was named
in the Lawyer Hot 100 in 2004, featured on the front page of Managing Partner
magazine in the same year and won the Black Woman in Business Award in 2007.
Claire Laney is a solicitor at Bosworths Solicitors in Hampton Court. Claire specializes in employment law and dispute resolution and is also an accredited mediator in commercial matters.
Claire has been a member of the AWS since she qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and she joined the executive committee in 2008 when she was invited to sit on the public relations sub-committee. In her spare time Claire enjoys snow skiing and spending time with family and friends.
Joanne Mortimer is a corporate and commercial solicitor in London. She has been an active member of the executive committee since 2004 , chairing the incorporation subcommittee, taking on the role of website editor and chairing the website subcommittee.
