What good can come of this? Emotional and mental wellbeing and the legal workplace post Covid-19

George Artley

As an undergraduate George studied history at the University of Oxford, before training as a commercial lawyer at Macfarlanes LLP in the City of London. He then returned to Oxford for graduate study, where he undertook a DPhil. In legal history, focusing on the political origins of the rule of law and judicial independence in England. As BIC Project Lawyer, his role is to assist the BIC in co-ordinating and implementing projects that exclusively support member bar associations and law societies, including capacity assistance projects to developing bars, BIC Policy Committee projects, and projects involving the BIC International Trade & Legal Services committee.

Carola van den Bruinhorst

Carola van den Bruinhorst is the IBA’s Treasurer, member of its Management Board and the Senior Leadership of the Legal Practice Division. She co-founded and chaired the IBA’s Diversity Council of which she now is a member. After having been an international tax partner of Loyens & Loeff for over twenty years, she now is responsible for designing and implementing a partner development program that will help the firm’s 100 equity partners in their professional and personal growth.

Søren Skibsted

Søren Skibsted became partner in Kromann Reumert in 2007 and serves as the head of Kromann Reumert's Technology and Outsourcing Groups. Søren advices a broad range of Danish and foreign businesses on IT and technology transactions, including joint ventures, outsourcing and IT system projects, in Denmark, the UK and other parts of the world. Søren has advised on many of the largest technology projects and disputes in the Danish market.

Søren holds various positions within the IT and Technology areas, including as Co-Chair in the IBA technology committee and as former president of the Danish Association of IT and Telecommunication Lawyers. He is a frequent speaker on international conferences, most recently the World Manage Services Congress in London, the IBA Annual Conference 2017 in Sydney and at the IBA Annual Conference 2019 in Seoul.

Mary B. Jackson

Mary a former corporate solicitor has worked at LawCare, the charity that promotes and supports good mental health and wellbeing across the legal community in the UK and Ireland. She is also a BACP therapeutic counsellor and works with Young Devon as a volunteer with a particular focus on trauma.

Chris Owen

Chris is the Senior Vice Chair of the European Regional Group of the IBA and is a corporate partner at City law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper. Chris has an MBA in Legal Practice Management from Nottingham Law School and works in his spare time as a Mindfulness Coach both in the UK and internationally.

Emma Jones

Dr Emma Jones is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield. Prior to entering academia she worked as a solicitor in private practice. Her research focuses on the role of emotions and wellbeing in legal education and the legal profession and she leads the Fit for Law project in collaboration with the charity LawCare.