Our People

Bronwen Still

Chair

Bronwen is a solicitor and compliance expert who specialises in helping firms and ABSs with all aspects of applying to be authorised and licensed by the SRA.

Robert Venables

Vice Chair

Robert Venables is a retired solicitor (E&W & former Charity Commissioner and Council member of LS(E&W). A founding trustee of LawCare, he is proud of having helped it to grow.

John Guerin

John Guerin is a partner at BLM in Belfast where he specialises in defence litigation for insurance companies, employment law, and professional disciplinary and regulatory work. He is Senior Vice President of the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Paul Venton

Paul worked in a “high street” practice for some 50 years before retiring in 2009, his primary field of work was commercial transaction both property and corporate.

Iain Mackie

Iain is a partner in a large London firm where he is head of litigation and dispute resolution.

Valerie Peart

A Solicitor since 1980, Valerie has been a Council Member since 2009. Along with her role as one of the Irish Trustees for LawCare, Valerie sits on a number of Task Forces and Working Groups within the Law Society. She also serves on The Education Committee, and is vice-chair of The Guidance and Ethics Committee.

Louise Campbell

Louise Campbell has been a LawCare Trustee since 2008. She is a solicitor in the Law Society of Ireland’s Policy and Public Affairs Department. She qualified as a solicitor in 2001. Prior to joining the Society Louise worked in private practice.

Andrew Caplen

Andrew Caplen is a Solicitor and Notary Public. He was President of the Law Society of England and Wales from 2014/2015. Andrew is a Consultant with Heppenstalls, Solicitors, in Hampshire. He is also Chair of Spurgeons Childrens Charity and Co-Director of ‘Restored’, a charity making a stand against issues of gender based violence.

Alexandra Marks

Alexandra Marks qualified as a solicitor in 1983, and was a partner at Linklaters (1990-2003). She now sits as a Deputy High Court Judge, Recorder and First Tier Tribunal Judge.

Helen Whiteman

Helen Whiteman is Chief Executive of CILEx Regulation. She joined CILEx in 2008 as head of corporate affairs having served as director of member services at LawNet. She became chief operating officer at CILEx in 2012, and was responsible for overseeing CILEx’s membership, qualifications, journal, international and regulatory affairs functions.

Kayleigh Leonie

Kayleigh Leonie qualified as a solicitor in July 2012 and specialises in employment law. Kayleigh has been involved with the Junior Lawyers Division of The Law Society (JLD) since 2010 and is extremely passionate about the resilience and wellbeing of junior lawyers in England and Wales.