When I became Law Society president this time last year, I made it my task to take the lead in communicating with the profession on our progress in transforming the representative side of the Law Society and I made a public commitment to meet with representatives from the top 100 firms to take their input to see what more the Law Society could do to support them.

The year is up and I have completed the process. I have also met with partners from several mid-tier and smaller firms, as well as in-house lawyers, young solicitors, trainees and students. This has allowed me to draw together some consistent themes from the exercise.