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Evans elected Law Society president for 2025

09 August 2023
Issue: 8037 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Welsh property and private client law solicitor Mark Evans has been elected deputy vice president of the Law Society

Evans, a former director at Allington Hughes in North Wales and Chester, joined the University of Law as a tutor in 2021 and now teaches on the Manchester, Liverpool and Chester campuses. He will take office in October and will be Law Society President for the 200th anniversary in 2025.

At the Law Society, Mark was a member of the Wales Committee for nine years and chaired that committee for four years. He sat on the Law Society’s Council for more than eight years, he has been a member of the Law Society Board and was a former President and Chair of the Cheshire and North Wales Law Society.

Evans, who will be the Law Society’s first president from North Wales, said: ‘I want to encourage ambitious and aspiring solicitors from all backgrounds to enter and stay within the legal profession.’

Issue: 8037 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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