AWS National Committee

The national committee consists of the executive committee plus the following:

Mags Grundy/ Stephanie Nunley - Bristol

Mags Grundy has been a member of the AWS since qualifying as a solicitor in 2004. In her position as Co-Chair of the Bristol group she is keen to promote and support the interests of women solicitors in the South West.
Mags is a private client solicitor. She is a member of the Probate Section and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners for whom she is Vice Chair of the Bristol branch.
Before qualifying as a solicitor, Mags was awarded an MSc in Women’s Studies from the University of Bristol having completed a thesis entitled "American Psychosis- Ally McBeal and the New Feminism."
Outside law, Mags plays guitar and was once in a band that released 3 singles on the Phonogram label, recorded at Abbey Road studios and played gigs throughout the UK.
An enthusiastic if not entirely successful seamstress, Mags hopes to pursue this passion when she retires, at an early age , to rural France following a highly successful (and lucrative) legal career!

Stephanie Nunley has been a member of the AWS since she was a Trainee Solicitor. She qualified in 2000 and was instrumental in establishing the Bristol & South West AWS Regional Group in 2009 with Mags Grundy. Having joined Clarke Willmott upon qualification 11 years ago she is a Senior Associate in the Personal Injury team, enjoys a managerial role and takes an active role in Business Development. She plays a key role in Regional Group of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) and is a fundraising Ambassador for Headway Somerset, introducing her contacts in the business community to the charity which assists brain damaged people and their families.

Stephanie's key strengths are her organisational skills and sense of humour. Fluent in French, she comes from a European law background having studied European law and languages and spent a year in Strasbourg studying Political Sciences and Working in the European Parliament. She takes an active role mentoring students at the College of Law and actively supports Charity One 25 and the Prince's Trust having participated in the Prince's Trust Enterprise Challenge in 2006.
Outside of her legal and charitable activities Stephanie is happily married to Stephen with two young children, Lottie and Freddie. Stephanie works full time but enjoys active weekends with her family.
Stephanie is also keen to promote the AWS in Bristol and the South West and encourage the support network for women of all ages and at different stages within the profession.

stephanie.nunley@clarkewillmott.com

Keir Mitchelmore - Edinburgh

Keir Mitchelmore is Chair of the AWS Edinburgh Group.

Keir is an English qualified lawyer with over 15 years English experience in commercial real estate and property finance and provides an English service to Morton Fraser’s Scottish clients.

Keir returned to Scotland in 2005 after many years living in the London area where she gained considerable experience working with City law firms and a North American bank.

Keir joined Morton Fraser's corporate banking and finance team and acts for major UK banks and for property companies investing south of the border . . . there is usually a Scottish connection to the deals she gets involved in.

One of Keir's key strengths is her pragmatic client focussed approach to the law and, outside the office, she enjoys playing tennis, reading and playing the piano.

Miriam Foulds - Lancaster

Linda Davies - London

Beverley Philpotts - Manchester

I am an In-house Solicitor with Peel Holdings, one of the leading property and transport companies in the UK with assets valued at £4bn, including the Trafford Centre, Liverpool John Lennon Airport and the Manchester Ship Canal Company. I moved in-house from a private practice in Manchester City Centre some seventeen years ago and during that time the Peel group has diversified its traditional property development investment interests and now includes transport companies within the Peel Ports and Peel Airports divisions. I have an interesting, varied and wide commercial property remit. I have been an active member of the Association of Women Solicitors Manchester Branch for more years than I care to remember, holding the offices of Chairman and Secretary and now Membership Secretary. My husband has a very keen interest in travel photography which takes us all over the world. I am an indispensable photographic assistant. I love to cook and entertain. I have recently developed an interest (much encouraged by my husband) in ski-ing, and to my amazement I have achieved a respectable level of competence. I enjoy walking in the Lake District and am a very good "armchair gardener".

bphillpotts@peel.co.uk

Katherine Hutchison - Merseyside Chester & N Wales

Katherine read Law at Huddersfield University graduating with an LLB (Hons.) degree in 1996. She obtained the position of clerk with Liverpool firm Silverman Livermore Solicitors in January 1997 and was taken on as a Trainee Solicitor the following September. She then studied for the LPC at Liverpool John Moores University whilst working full time , qualifying in Septmeber 2000.
Katherine has spent the whole of her career practising in family law, working in various High St practices. Her current position is with Abensons Solicitors where she is Head of the Family department. She joined the AWS as a trainee in 1997 and become a Committee member in 2007, taking the Chair in 2010 and again in 2011.

Katherine has varied interests outside work, including dance and fitness, attending at numerous concerts and travel. She is also involved in her local church and is a Eucharist Member and Baptism Catechist. Katherine also attends and supports numerous charities and charitable events.

katherine@abensons.co.uk