Association of Women Solicitors

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The Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) is a recognised group of the Law Society of England and Wales that aims to be the essential national network promoting the potential and success of each woman solicitor at every stage of her career. The first women solicitor, Carrie Morrison, was admitted in December 1922. The AWS was formed in 1923 and consists of an Executive Committee based in London, a National Committee and Regional Groups throughout England and Wales.

1 AWS Services
2 AWS Patrons
3 AWS & the Media
4 Chairwomen
5 References
6 External links

[edit] AWS Services

The AWS runs a mentoring scheme,a maternity & paternity helpline and CPD-accredited courses (including a week-long course at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, aimed at encouraging solicitors to re-enter the profession after a career break). The AWS Regional Groups also organise a number of social and networking events.

The AWS has a seat on the Law Society Council and works with other organisations to promote diversity in the profession. The Association is concerned with law reform and responds to consultation papers.

[edit] AWS Patrons

The patrons of the AWS are Diana Kempe QC, Eileen Pembridge, Harriet Harman, Janet Gaymer (the first women senior partner in a City law firm) and Fiona Woolf (the first AWS Chairwoman, and only the second woman, to become President of the Law Society).

[edit] AWS & the Media

The AWS engages proactively with the media and produces its own glossy quarterly magazine, Link. Past AWS Chairwomen have published books on women in the legal profession. Elizabeth Cruickshank is the author of Women in the Law: Strategic Career Management and she and Boma Ozobia are co-authors of Sisters in Law.

[edit] Chairwomen

The current Chairwoman is Fiona Fitzgerald (Coleman Ctts) and the Deputy-Vice Chairwoman is Clare McConnell (Pinsent Masons). Past Chairwoman include Susha Chandrasekhar (Government Legal Service), Dawn Dixon (Webster Dixon), Boma Ozobia, Elizabeth Cruickshank, Fiona Woolf, Karen Aldred, Teresa Grant-Peterkin, Geraldine Cotton and Alison Parkinson.