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The President’s Foreword
The President’s Foreword
SUMMER 2025
Welcome to our (looking back at) summer edition of Central London Lawyer magazine, and what a summer it was for WHLS!
We had an incredible two days with our colleagues from the European Bar Federation at our Legal Links London event in June. It was a pleasure to welcome them all and it was a wonderful reminder that 'more unites us than divides us'. You can read more about the event on page 12. Thank you to our international sub-committee for their hard work on arranging such a successful occasion. They have also been busy with their series of international legal evenings, as Marta Sanchez Merino describes on page 18.
In July we held our annual summer party, which was a great evening of conversation, networking and catching up as Ella Atkins describes on page 14. Thank you to our hosts Barbie Green and our generous sponsors, No. 5 chambers. As always with these events, getting everyone together led to fresh ideas for future collaborations. Watch this space for future events already in the planning.
Amongst these flagship events we also supported the London Legal Support Trust at the London Legal Walk and held an online coaching session with Executive Coach, Lisa Lazell, which had us all thinking about our inner chimps!
Now our minds have turned to our annual dinner which is booked for Thursday 2 October at the House of Lords. Not surprisingly when we are in such a historic and beautiful venue our tickets sell out quickly so do buy yours as soon as you can. For details please see the advert on page 7.
I would like to end with a call out to everyone reading our magazine - do let us know if there is anything you would like to see from us that we are not already doing or if you would like to get involved with, or support, Westminster & Holborn Law Society. We currently have some sub-committee vacancies which are a great way to get involved with your local legal community, raise your profile, diversify your skills and makes new connections. What’s not to like?
Finally, my thanks as always to the amazing Central London Lawyer editorial team.
Kind Regards.
Nicola Wainwright
President
Westminster & Holborn Law Society
Now our minds have turned to our annual dinner which is booked for Thursday 2 October at the House of Lords. Not surprisingly when we are in such a historic and beautiful venue our tickets sell out quickly so do buy yours as soon as you can.
