Diane Burleigh, Chief Executive Officer of The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, OBE
Diane Burleigh, Chief Executive Officer of The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours. She receives the award for services to the legal profession.
Burleigh has led CILEx since 1998, during which time legal executives have acquired rights to apply for judicial office and achieved higher recognition within the legal profession. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1981 and became a partner with Balderston Warren in Letchworth, Hertfordshire specialising in criminal and family law.
She later worked as an advisor to the Law Society, becoming Head of Court Business and Deputy Director of Policy, and has lectured widely on money laundering law.
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