Teamwork made the Carden Park Conference a huge success in every way!

The venue came up to the highest expectations of the attendees – we had comprehensive approval and praise from all.

Speakers on all subjects were interesting, relevant, and knowledgeable (including a last-minute stand - in Barry Mapp, to whom we give huge thanks). All the principal talks are now available on the members area of the website – all you need to do is sign up for free, to view these with our other webinars.

A copy of the programme is at page 5 in this edition – together with details of the speakers at pages 14-15.

The social programme was entertaining and a great opportunity for networking – with the Saturday night Hollywood themed Gala Ball an outstanding success. Well done to all the girls who made a wonderful effort with the ultra-glamorous evening wear. And I lost count of the elegant James Bond lookalikes!

Huge thanks to our sponsors particularly Lockton Insurance, whose regular annual support makes this and other services for our members possible.

And also, to Leap Legal Software UK and the SRA who were the other principal sponsors for the event.

We were also grateful for the exhibitors:

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And of course, all our sponsors and exhibitors brought informative and interesting stands to our exhibition area, which was constantly crowded out between sessions.

None of this would have been possible without the TEAMWORK which made it all happen: 1. From myself, Joanna Connelly your esteemed Chair, and Sukhjit

Ahluwalia your crack negotiator and Marketing Director, as the main team spearheading the event. 2. We were backed up by the ever-professional services of Anika at AH

Business Solutions, our superbly reliable administration assistant, and

Jennifer Houlihan of Dotted Lines, our expert on conference detail and hotel negotiation. 3. And there were so many others – in particular Lubna Shuja our very own

TLS VP, who not only gave us the advantage of her advice, but also ensured that the Law Society Gazette honoured their promise to send a reporter – resulting in front page news for our Honorary Secretary; Clive Sutton’s revelations on the huge success of his SIF representations on our behalf. 4. The venue must also be commended for their unfailing willingness to go the extra mile for us. They even managed to arrange sunshine and breaks in rain showers just when needed! 5. And then of course there was YOU, OUR MEMBERS. We had planned this year to urge everyone to book well in advance, and the vast majority of you did so. THANK YOU SO MUCH. This made a huge difference to the difficulty of the job and the success of our event. Please do just the same next year!

I have been honoured and delighted, again, to direct this event and look forward to next year – which will no doubt be even better. Don’t miss it!

Penny Raby, Executive Committee Conference Director

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