Stephen was the 50th national President of Cilex and the first who was also qualified as a solicitor. He spent ten years on the Cilex board. He started his career as an apprentice and qualified as a lawyer whilst working full time. He was the first Cilex apprentice to sit on the Cilex board and has championed apprenticeships throughout his career.

He has worked in various law firms dealing with general civil litigation which included dealing with civil actions against the police and sexual abuse claims. He ran his own successful high street firm for twelve years before moving on to pursue other opportunities.

He now works in-house and sits as a police misconduct judge for seventeen police forces across England and Wales. He also works as an associate with the College of Policing assisting them with recruitment and promotion for UK police forces.

He was appointed to the Legal Services Board in August 2020, and is the first Cilex member to sit as a non-executive board member for the oversight regulator.  In his spare time, he enjoys reading about ancient history and spending holidays in his VW campervan.

Keven Bader joined the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys in November 2008 as the first Chief Executive.

He has overseen many developments during his time at CITMA including the successful petition for a Royal Charter, granted in April 2016 and the introduction of a new title CITMA Paralegal for paralegals specialising in trade mark and design work.

This led to the launch of a formal Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme for CITMA Paralegals in January 2019. 

Eleanor Evans is a partner in Hugh James, a top 100 UK law firm with offices in Cardiff and London. Eleanor is Head of the Trusts and Estates Administration Department, a large team dealing with estates and trusts administration on behalf of financial institutions, trust corporations, and individual executors and trustees. Eleanor is a specialist in wills, probate, tax and trusts, and is a full member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners, and a committee member of the STEP Wales branch.

Karen is the co-owner of Solve Legal Marketing, part of the Practical Vision network.

Karen has over 20 years experience in the legal, property and mortgage markets, specialising in setting up and growing businesses who supply to the legal sector. With a background in sales and marketing Karen has held a number of senior management posts specialising in the conveyancing and wills and probate sectors.

Lee Davies is the Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), a role he took up in February 2012.  Prior to this, Lee held the position of Deputy Chief Executive of the Institute for Learning (IfL), where he was instrumental in reforming and refocusing professional identity in the further education sector.  Lee is a passionate advocate for the association sector and is Vice-President and Chair of the Institute of Association Management (IAM), where he leads the Chief Executives’ Forum. 

Lee’s professional background is in engineering (mechanical services) and further education teaching.  Lee has experience of the governance of professional bodies, having served as the President of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) in 2011-12. 

Katrina is an Associate in Capsticks Solicitors having spent a number of years in in-house roles where her previous team won the Law Society Excellence Award for the in-house category in 2017.  She was also the Independent Adjudicator for Grenfell.

She specialises in combating anti-social behaviour and tenancy fraud and was awarded an MBE for services to social housing in the New Year’s Honours List in 2016.  Katrina is passionate about protecting the victims of anti-social behaviour and fraud. She is also the Chair of the Law Society’s LGBT+ Division. Katrina is also the founding member and Chair of the Tenancy Fraud Forum which brings together all social landlords to identify and stop tenancy fraud.

Stephen Ward has been a barristers' clerk since 1983, becoming a senior clerk in 1993.  Aged 25, Stephen was one of the youngest senior clerks in the UK after 10 years experience in the Temple and Grays Inn, London.  Now Stephen is co-owner and co-founded Clerksroom Barristers in 2001, more recently added Clerksroom Direct in 2015, which is a web based portal allowing anyone to go direct to a UK qualified Barrister. Clerksroom Direct was voted the UK's 2nd most Disruptive Tech Start Up company 2017 by Disruptive Pitch TV (15th March 2017)

Stephen’s current roles include Managing Director of Clerksroom Barristers, Clerksroom Mediation & Clerksroom Direct. Stephen has recently taken on the additional task of project manager for Billy Bot, the chat bot junior clerk. 

Stephen has won many awards for innovation and appeared in numerous publications with a focus on disruption in the legal tech environment in the UK.

Hilary is a specialist family lawyer with over 20 years experience. In her practice H A Underwood Solicitors, based in Kent, she focuses upon children issues and is an expert practitioner in the complex field of parental alienation. She is passionate about helping those who are victims of this damaging form of child abuse. Hilary is also twice winner of the Lawyer Monthly Women in Law Awards - Advocacy Solicitor of the Year (UK). She is co-Director of the Hexagon Legal Network, former Interim CEO of the Surrey Law Society and former Chairwoman of the Sole Practitioners Group.