EVENTS

Senior Partners Lunch

6 March 2025

As summarised in my President’s report, I had the honour and privilege of hosting this year’s senior partners lunch at the wonderful Tylney Hall near Hook. As you can see from the pictures it is a stunning location set in 66 acres of park land and although a mansion house has existed on the site since 1561 the first Tylney hall was not built until 1700. The existing hall and estate were purchased in 1898 by Lionel Phillips for £77,000.00. The property became a school between 1948 and 1984 and was opened as a hotel in 1985. The building remains grade 2 listed.

The venue has hosted the Senior Partners Lunch for 2 consecutive years and is befitting of the event.

We had over 20 Senior Partners Managing Directors and CEO’s attending from many different firms across Hampshire, this setting provided an ideal opportunity for networking, learning and a superb lunch in between.

The event could not have taken place without the assistance of the committee of HILS and our marketing partner Rachel Tombs and her team from Orion Legal marketing.

The event kicked off after arrival refreshments with a short introduction from me as President,å I was able to introduce two members of the committee to those attending being Mo Aldridge as Honorary Secretary and Theresa Mills my Deputy and current Treasurer. I spoke of the importance of our members to HILS and the need to sustain and grow the membership. As well as ensuring that we deliver to our members, the support, collaboration, education and information they need to enable them to thrive in the ever-changing legal sector and the challenges we as lawyers face both individually and collectively.

We had support from two sponsors this year, Actionstep who provided a presentation on their bespoke and bolt on case management systems and apps designed to assist legal practices move forward and improve service from accounts to case management and the dreaded issues of compliance. Along with our long-time supporter and Sponsor Andrew Prismal of HW Conveyancing. Andrew provided yet more insight into the world of conveyancing searches and a new concept of property passports. My sincere thanks, of course, for both organisations for sponsoring the events which enable us to put on the event.

We were then able to welcome our headline speaker Simon McCrum of McCrum Legal who although, not needing any introduction provided an insight into his legal career, including his highs and lows before becoming a legal trainer and consultant who has gone on to publish three very successful books entitled the Perfect Lawyer, The Perfect Legal Practice and the Perfect Partner. Although we are only able to dive briefly into his concepts of what makes a successful legal practice the insights were invaluable and I hope provided everyone who attended food for thought and small or big changes that could be made to help grow legal practices across Hampshire.

My sincere thanks to Simon for being able to attend and speak to us and fit us into his busy schedule.

We were all able to enjoy a great two course lunch and spend time networking and discussing many topics. I personally had a really enjoyable day and again thank everyone who took time out of their Schedule to attend. I for one thought it was huge success and look forward to next year’s event.