The LawCare staff team

Elizabeth Rimmer
Chief Executive

Trish McLellan
Director of Engagement

Niamh Warnock
Engagement and Relationship Manager

Rose Donnelly
Engagement and Development Manager

Anna Buttimore
Support Services Manager

Andrew Darnton
Support and Volunteer Coordinator

Sarah Fitsell
Communications Manager

Emma Manley
Office Manager

Mary Jackson
Training Consultant
Our Trustees
Claire Joseph
Claire is the Chair of the Board of Trustees. After a fee earning career spanning 20 years, Claire’s passion for driving the inclusion and wellbeing agenda led to a full-time career change and Claire is now the Inclusion and Wellbeing Manager at Pinsent Masons. She is also Chair of Lawcare’s EDI Working Group.
Andrew Caplen
Andrew is a Solicitor and Notary Public. He was President of the Law Society of England and Wales from 2014/2015. Andrew is a Consultant with Heppenstalls Solicitors in Hampshire. He is also Chair of Spurgeons Childrens Charity and Co-Director of ‘Restored’, a charity making a stand against issues of gender-based violence.
Karl Cerski
Karl qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1991 and has worked in a range of organisations in the commercial and NfP/charity sectors, latterly as CFO at the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and most recently as CFO at the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
John Guerin
John Guerin is a partner at BLM in Belfast where he specialises in defence litigation for insurance companies, employment law, and professional disciplinary and regulatory work.
Heather McKendrick
Having studied the LLB at the University of Aberdeen, Heather has worked in Judicial training and in marketing before taking up a post at the Law Society of Scotland, where she has worked for the for the last 12 years leading the Careers and Outreach Team. Heather has established a number of national projects for the current and future members of the Scottish legal profession such as a mentoring project for trainees and solicitors. Heather has been involved in the development of a charity to support young people facing financial disadvantage – the Lawscot Foundation – and now leads this charity, along with focusing on social mobility, diversity and wellbeing within the profession.
Paul Nevin
Paul qualified as a Registered Mental Nurse in 1991, was called to the English Bar in 2000 and is now a Scottish Solicitor. He is currently the Legal Manager (Conveyancing & Commercial) with The Highland Council. Paul also teaches Mental Health on a part-time basis with the University of the Highland & Islands.
Rachael O'Connor
Rachael is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leeds and a former corporate tax solicitor at Pinsent Masons LLP. Rachael is passionate about diversity, inclusion and wellness both in legal education and the profession and in her role as Director of Student Support in the School, has led on wellbeing and inclusion strategies and interventions for law students. Her research expertise focus on reverse mentoring as a diversity and inclusion intervention, as well as co-designing interventions with stakeholders and participants. Rachael has won prizes in the higher education sector for her work on reverse mentoring.
Lucinda Soon
Lucinda specialises in advising law firms on professional ethics and SRA regulation. She has a particular interest in matters relating to workplace culture, well-being, and ethical behaviours in the workplace. Lucinda is also a doctoral researcher in organisational psychology. Her research focuses on the workplace environment and well-being of lawyers. She has an MSc in Psychology and is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS). Lucinda was also a co-researcher on LawCare’s Life in the Law research study.
Emma Williams
A litigator by background, Emma found her calling in law firm Risk & Compliance, specialising in AML, data privacy, professional ethics and SRA regulation. She has worked in the City for over 20 years with the last decade exclusively in US law firms. Outside of her “day job”, albeit the connections are not as tenuous as you might think, Emma is a certified Stress & Resilience Coach and Mindfulness Teacher. She is a member of The Law Society’s Money Laundering Task Force and a visiting professor at a leading London law school.
Our Champions

Karen Baxter
Partner, Lewis Silkin LLP

Paul Bennett
Partner, Bennett Briegal LLP

Chloe Benton
Associate, Reed Smith LLP

Gillian Bishop
Consultant, Family Law in Partnership

Andrea Brewster OBE
Lead Executive Officer, IP Inclusive

Jude Copeland
Legal Review Manager and Associate in the Legal Technology Group of Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors

Simon Davis

Sonay Erten
Consultant solicitor advocate at Legal Studio Solicitors

Clare Good
Solicitor, Cardiff Law Society

Catherine Hart
Partner, Professional Support Lawyer

Julie Hedge
Legal PA at Shoosmiths

Gillian Higgins
Barrister and Mediation teacher

Jodie Hill
Managing Director, Thrive Law

Karen Jackson
Solicitor & Managing Director, Didlaw

Claire Jacques
Lawyer and Psychotherapist

Malvika Jaganmohan
Barrister, St Ives Chambers

Sam Jardine
Partner, Fieldfisher

Susan Lamb
Group Records Manager, Shell

Kayleigh Leonie
Senior Associate at Macfarlanes

Shaheen Mamun
Solicitor and Co-founder of Black Antelope Law

Richard Martin
Executive Officer of the Mindful Business Charter

David McCahon
Chief of Staff at international law firm Mills & Reeve

James McFarlane
In-house legal counsel in Natwest Group PLC's Outsourcing, Technology and Intellectual Property Team

Henry Nelson-Case
Content Creator, Solicitor, Workplace Wellbeing Advocate

Nick O'Neill
Chambers Director, Hundred Court chambers

James Pereira
KC Barrister and Coach

Wendy Quinn
Head of Risk and Compliance at Anderson Strathern LLP

Lloyd Rees
Knowledge lawyer, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Peter Riddleston
Learning & Quality Director, Lawnet

Anna Robinson
Psychotherapist, counsellor and emotional wellbeing consultant

Eric Rugundu
Client Relationship Manager at the International Bar Association

Joanne Theodoulou
General Counsel at Simply Business, and a Trustee of MIND

Emma Walker
Non-practising solicitor

Millie Wallace
Senior Partner at Wedlake Bell and a private client lawyer

Claire Weldon
Associate, DAC Beachcroft

Helen Whiteman
Chief Executive Officer at Chartered Institute of Taxation

Victoria Wilson
Barrister, Goldsmith Chambers

William Wilson
Solicitor at Lacey Solicitors

Céline Winham
Employment Lawyer at Irwin Mitchell LLP
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