President’s Review

INTRODUCTION

President’s Review

MARCH 2022

Well two and a half months in and we have been extremely busy – which must be good news.

Renewals were sent out for our annual membership and we have a discounted rate if you renew or sign up before 31 March 2022 so now is the time for action.

I attended a Southern Area Association of Local Law Societies (SAALS) all day conference in January which was very informative and helpful. All the southern regional law societies are experiencing the same challenges that face HILS. It was a useful opportunity to share our knowledge and what things have worked and what things have not. Learning from each other’s victories and failures gives all of us an opportunity to grow and bring new ideas to the table.

I have been very busy with some of our dedicated committee members planning events for the year. We are excited to be able to share dates for our upcoming Quiz which is always a well attended and extremely enjoyable evening – this is on Thursday 31 March 2022 at The Grand Café. We have also been able to book our speaker and date for our annual dinner, another extremely popular event and more details are contained on both the Quiz and Annual Dinner within this issue.

I have been working hard on our social media engagement and have re-invigorated the HILS profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Please look us up and connect. I would love for our members to become more involved and send me useful and interesting information so that I can share it across these mediums as we can reach a very wide audience this way.

Our lecture series goes from strength to strength and we are looking to broaden the topics covered from the ‘pure’ CPD driven lectures to covering solicitors accounts rules, secretarial work, PII, GDPR and more.

Our big coup is that we have managed to agree with the President of the National Law Society to come to Hampshire for a visit. We will be putting on some ‘fireside’ chats with her where we hope we will be able to start conversations with Trainee Solicitors, Junior Lawyers, Senior Partners and everyone inbetween. We are looking at putting on 3 different events on the 03 May 2022 where there will be the opportunity to interact with her and other members of the Law Society to ask our questions and to engage with them as to what they do for us and what they can do for us as a profession. We hope you will be a part of this and join us at one of the events.

Thank you to the committee who are all busy working hard to make the above happen and further planning for more events in the year. If you have any interest in joining the committee or any ideas for further items then please get in contact. ■

Mo Aldridge

Mo Aldridge

President

Hampshire Law Society