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Paul Mollerup

Paul Mollerup

President

Managing Director
The Association of Danish Law Firms
Vesterbrogade 32
Copenhagen 1620
Denmark
Phone: +45 33 43 70 10
e-mail: [email protected]

Heidi was admitted as a solicitor of Hong Kong in 1991. She has worked in private practice and as an in-house counsel before her appointment as Secretary General of the Law Society of Hong Kong in 2011. Heidi’s main areas of interest are legal education, professional ethics and changing practice environment.

The Law Society of Hong Kong is the professional body of solicitors in Hong Kong, tasked with both representative and regulatory functions. With over 8,500 solicitor members, 1,500 registered foreign lawyers, 930 trainee solicitors and 15,000 supporting staff in law firms, the Law Society’s jurisdiction extends to over 27,000 individuals in Hong Kong’s legal service industry. The Law Society is committed to defending the rule of law, protecting human rights, maintaining the highest standards of the solicitors’ profession as well as providing relevant and effective services and support to its members.

The Law Society of Hong Kong is a founding member of IILACE and Heidi joined IILACE in 2011 when she took over as the Secretary General of the Law Society in the same year. She was honoured that Hong Kong had the opportunity to be the hosting venue for the IILACE Annual Conference in the following year in 2012.

Jonathan Herman

Jonathan Herman

Vice-President

Chief Executive Officer
Federation of Law Societies of Canada
1810-45 O’Connor St
Ottawa, Ontario  K1P 1A4
Ph: (613) 236-7250
e-mail: [email protected]

Paul Mollerup is the Managing Director of the Association of Danish Law Firms, a position he has held since September of 2009.

Formerly the CEO of the Association of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, he has over a decade of experience working with both government and the private sector.

Driven by the challenge of developing and implementing organization-wide strategies, he also finds great satisfaction from offering his time and energy as a volunteer.  He has spent many years involved in the scouts movement,  the international student exchange (United World Colleges), cultural organizations and NGOs working in the field of development assistance (DanChurchAid).

Luke Rheinberger

Luke Rheinberger

Secretary-Treasurer

Executive Director
Law Society of Tasmania
28 Murray Street
GPO Box 1133
Hobart Tasmania
Tel.: (03) 6234 4133 
e-mail: [email protected]

Heidi Chu

Heidi Chu

Past President

Secretary General
The Law Society of Hong Kong
71 Des Voeux Road Central
3rd floor, Wing on House
Hong Kong
Phone: 852 2846 0500
E-mail: [email protected]

Retha Steinmann is currently the Director of the Law Society of Namibia.  She is also an admitted legal practitioner and is a member of the Law Society of Namibia since 2006.

Her past employment includes working for Old Mutual as Client Services Manager at Employee Benefits and Legal Advisor and prior to that Principal Legal Officer at the Ministry of Justice – Namibia, where she held the positions of Control Prosecutor and later as Magistrate.  Before moving to Namibia she worked as a Prosecutor at the Department of Justice in South Africa.

Retha was involved in the Savanna Club, a friendships club between Namibian and South African ladies who supported various charitable courses and which club also established the Namibian Business Women of the Year Award, as a committee member and later as Chairlady.

She is also the Namibian country representative of the University of Pretoria’s (Tuks) Alumni.  She received a Tuks Alumni Star Award during 2002 for meritorious service.

Retha is a member of the executive committee of the International Institute of Law Association Chief Executives (IILACE) since 2008, the same year that she hosted the conference of IILACE in Windhoek, Namibia.

She is also the recipient of the Law Society of England and Wales 2008-2009 Commonwealth Professional Fellowship.

Brenda Grimes

Brenda Grimes

Executive Member

Executive Director
Law Society of Newfoundland
196-198 Water St
PO Box 1028 Stn C
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador  A1C 5M3
Canada
Phone: (709) 722-4795
E-mail: [email protected]

Edward Mapara

Edward Mapara

Executive Member

Executive Secretary
Law Society of Zimbabwe
5th Floor-46 Kwanme Nkrumah Avenue
PO Box 2595
Harare Zimbabwe
Tel.:
e-mail: [email protected]

Merete Smith

Merete Smith

Executive Member

Secretary General
The Norwegian Bar Association
Juristenes Hus
Kristian Augusts gate 9
Oslo  164 Norway
Tel.: +4797029597
e-mail: [email protected]

John Hoyles

John Hoyles

Secretary General

Chief Executive Officer
Relationships are Everything Inc.
190 O’Connor Street, 7th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario  K2P 2R3
Canada
Tel.: (613) 799-3856
e-mail: [email protected]