The adage of feeling your age when police officers and judges start looking younger than you might have to be extended – to law society presidents.
Last year, Alice Kinder reached the top at the Birmingham Law Society aged just 31. Now the Norfolk and Norwich Law Society has chosen a president even younger: 28-year-old Kerry Read.
The York graduate has only been a solicitor for only four years but has thrown herself into society activities almost from the off, and inherited her chains of office in November.
The society has been operating since 1843 and Read said the privilege of promoting the thriving local legal community was ‘immense’.
‘I’m looking forward to putting all my energy into my year and getting as many people of my age involved as possible,’ said Read, a family law specialist originally from Manchester who moved to Norfolk in search of a training contract and decided to stay. 'We are trying to steer away from stuffy traditional events and doing things because they’ve always been done that way. We want to do things a bit differently.’
Obiter is pretty sure 28 is the youngest age for a law society president, but we stand to be corrected. Do get in touch if you can beat it.
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