| Date: September 2009
Young
lawyers at leading East Midlands criminal and business defence firm
Cartwright King are setting their sights on
helping to shape the legal profession in the region by joining the
committees of the Junior Lawyers Society based in the four cities
where the firm has offices.
Emily
Patterson, a trainee with the firm’s
Derby office and who is due to qualify at the end of this year, has
just joined the Derby committee.
She
follows in the footsteps of Laura Pinkney
who is already a representative for Nottinghamshire, whilst John
Davies holds the post of secretary for the Sheffield committee and
Sundip Meghani is the national representative for the Leicestershire
committee.
The Junior Lawyers
Society is a division of the Law Society and represents student
members of the Society enrolled through the Solicitors Regulation
Authority, as well as trainee solicitors and solicitors with
up to five years' active post-qualification expertise. It was set up
as a specific group within the Law Society to provide junior lawyers
with support, advice, information and networking opportunities. The
organisation also represents the views of its members through
lobbying and campaigns both in the United Kingdom and
internationally.
“We fully support
our younger lawyers getting actively involved in the Junior Lawyers
Society,” said Michael Thurston, managing director of Cartwright
King. “It means that they are ideally placed to have a direct
influence on their own profession and also to make a real
contribution to the activities of each society.”
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