President’s Review

President’s Review

APRIL 2025

Welcome to the Spring edition of the Hampshire Law Society magazine. My first report since being elected as President of Hampshire Law Society. It is an absolute honour and privilege to serve our members both individual and corporate.

Since my election I have been involved in much planning for the year ahead and like a flash we are already in late March.

This year marks the 200 years of The Law Society and I and the other members of the committee have been busy liaising with the Law Society for the Presidents visit in early July, more details will follow so keep an eye out for our newsletters and e-mails sent regularly to our members. If you do not receive these then please reach out to Nicola our admin assistant or me.

I am busy planning both our charity quiz (3rd April) at the Concorde Club in Eastleigh for my nominated Charity CIS’ters and our Annual Dinner on Friday 13th June, hopefully the date will not have any bad omens and will be a great success.

One of my goals this year to have more engagement with our local lawyers and promote the benefits of becoming involved with your local law society.

We cannot survive without the support of our members and increasing support and membership is vital. I have recently met with the legal department of Southampton City Council and hope to be able to do the same with other local authorities in our area to see if we can encourage more engagement from in house lawyers.

We held our Senior Partners Lunch on 6th March at the amazing venue at Tylney Hall. This was an opportunity to network with senior partners, managing partners and managing directors of many Hampshire law firms. We were supported and sponsored by Actionstep and Andrew Prismall of HW Conveyancing Searches who both gave an insight into their businesses and how they can help the local profession including the launch of property passports.

Our headline speaker Simon McCrum of McCrum legal gave us two 1 hour sessions on developing legal practices and how to create the perfect lawyers, the perfect legal business and indeed the perfect partners. I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all those who attended this event and in particular our sponsors and headline speaker Simon for a great day finished with a fabulous lunch.

The committee could not organise such events with not only our members support but also with the help of Nicola our admin assistant and Rachel Tombs and her team at Orion Legal Marketing.

Finally, I am keen to learn from all our members how we can best support the local legal profession and indeed am happy to hear from you about any additional support or particular learning needs that you would like us to consider as part of our education programme. If you are interested in joining the committee or becoming a member of HILS then please feel free to reach out to me. ■

Kevin Richardson

President

Hampshire Law Society

SAVE THE DATE

Hampshire Law Society 2025 

Annual Dinner & Awards

13 June - 6:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Macdonald Botley Park Hotel, Winchester Road, Southampton SO32 2UA

Further information will be circulated very soon.