Meet the President
Glenys Hunt
It is also going to be a year of
consolidation, continuing the
changes that have been implemented
during the past twelve months by
Alistair Fletcher. Glenys says
“Alistair made a number of changes
to procedures and some of the
Society’s social events, such as the
format of the Annual Dinner, and
the introduction of the very popular
Real Ale Tasting Evening.”
However, where Alistair focussed on
some of the City’s larger law firms,
Glenys would like to focus on small
and medium sized firms. She hopes
to be able to visit firms both in
Liverpool, and on the Wirral, to
discover how Liverpool Law Society
can assist them and offer support
where it is needed.
Clearly it is going to be a very busy
year, with the International Festival
for Business being held in Liverpool
in June and July and Glenys hopes
Glenys Hunt of Carpenters
Solicitors on the Wirral has now
been elected President of Liverpool
Law Society
Prior to joining the legal profession,
Glenys Hunt spent 16 years working
in the NHS in the pathology lab of a
hospital before entering Liverpool
John Moores University to study for
a law degree on a part time basis.
After the first year Glenys then
moved to Lancaster University on a
full time basis, completing her study
with the LPC at the College of Law,
Chester.
Glenys trained at J. Keith Park & Co
in St Helens and when several
months qualified joined Smith &
Graham in Durham. However
Glenys wanted to return to her
home city of Liverpool, and in 1998
joined Lees Lloyd Whitley, where
she specialised in clinical negligence
and personal injury. Glenys was
made a partner and remained with
the firm until its closure in 2009. For
a short time she worked at
Thomsons, and in 2010 joined
Carpenters where she has a small
clinical negligence and serious
personal injury caseload, but is
mainly oocupied in her r