Speakers

	Cath Russell Deputy Director of Interventions The Law Society of Scotland

	Christine McLintock President The Law Society of Scotland Christine was formerly the Risk & Knowledge Management Partner and a board member at McGrigors. She then became General Counsel for Pinsent Masons, following its merger with McGrigors, and headed up the Risk, Compliance and In-House Legal Services Group for the firm until 2013. She joined the Law Society’s Council in 2005 and also sits on the Society’s Board, where she has played an important part in directing the strategy of the organisation

	Coral Riddell Head of Professional Practice The Law Society of Scotland Coral heads up the Professional Practice team - a team passionate about helping solicitors with professional or ethical enquiries, supporting solicitors to reach decisions about critical ethical matters or issues which may impact on their future career

	Hugh Sanders Solicitor to the Financial Compliance Department The Law Society of Scotland Hugh started as a trainee solicitor with Morisons LLP in Edinburgh in September 2008, qualifying in August 2010. Upon qualification, Hugh worked in both commercial & civil litigation. During his time at Morisons, however, his focus became primarily professional negligence and insolvency litigation.

	Ian Messer Director of Financial Compliance The Law Society of Scotland Ian is a Chartered Accountant who joined the society as Director of Financial Compliance in August 08. Ian's background is in internal audit and he was previously Chief Internal Auditor for NHS Lothian and NHS Borders. Before that Ian was an internal audit manager with Andersen working for plc clients and has also worked for other public bodies.

	Lorna Jack Chief Executive The Law Society of Scotland Lorna joined the Society in January 2009. Prior to the Law Society, Lorna was based in the United States, as President Americas for Scottish Development International (SDI), the Scottish Government's trade and investment arm. In this role, she was responsible for operations across five locations in the US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil and at an early stage she delivered a large operational restructuring and redirection of this team. Under her leadership, the team delivered significant gains on its inward investment agenda (including new and expansion projects with Dell, Amazon, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Trump and Wyeth). They also supported around 150 Scottish companies every year to tackle the Americas market. This included the option of co-locating with SDI in cities throughout the US when companies were making their first real step into the North American market. Previously, Lorna was Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise (SE) Forth Valley, one of 12 local enterprise companies covering Scotland. Prior to her appointment to the Chief Executive role in 2000, she was Director of Operations for two years. Before joining SE Forth Valley, she was Head of the SE Global Companies Enquiry Team. She has also served as Head of the Food Team at SE as well as head of a team at SE Grampian that provided training to the food and manufacturing sectors. A chartered accountant by profession, she completed her training with Arthur Andersen and spent six years in financial management roles with a UK telecoms and cable television company before joining SE. She is a graduate of Aberdeen University and for four years sat on the board of the university's US Development Trust.

	Ms Natalie Cooke Financial Compliance Manager Law Society of Scotland Natalie joined the Society's Compliance Team in April 2005. Natalie is responsible for overseeing a team of inspectors who carry out compliance inspections all over Scotland, as well as providing seminars and training to members of the profession on Accounts Rules compliance.

0	Russell Lang Vice President Marsh Limited Russell is member of the team within Marsh Limited that is responsible for broking and administering the Law Society of Scotland Master Policy for Professional Indemnity Insurance and for providing risk management training and advice to the legal profession in Scotland.

	Sarah Prior Head of Update conference & events The Law Society of Scotland Sarah heads up the Society's award winning Update team. Holding over 120 seminars and conferences each year throughout Scotland for Scottish Solicitors and beyond.

	Ms Sharon Brownlee Financial Compliance Manager Law Society of Scotland Sharon joined the Society's Compliance Team in April 2000. Sharon is responsible for overseeing a team of inspectors who carry out compliance inspections all over Scotland, as well as providing seminars and training to members of the profession on Accounts Rules compliance.

	Tina Heywood Head of Financial Compliance The Law Society of Scotland Tina has been with the Law Society since 1994 and head up the Financial Compliance Team which has responsibility for carrying out inspections of solicitor's books and records within offices throughout Scotland, checking primarily for Accounts Rules compliance, and reporting the findings to the Guarantee Fund Sub Committee. Tina is also a member of SOLAS – The Society of Law Accountants in Scotland, and serves on the Dundee branch committee as well as the General Council of SOLAS.