LawCare works to create a legal sector where people can thrive, offering practical support and driving cultural change across the profession.
• Free, confidential emotional support for anyone working in the legal sector across the UK, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man.
• Peer support and guidance, helping individuals navigate stress, pressure, and wellbeing challenges.
• Advocacy and education, promoting better mental health practices in legal workplaces through training, research, and awareness initiatives.
• Sector-wide collaboration with educators, regulators, professional bodies, and legal practices to address the growing evidence that traditional working cultures in law can undermine wellbeing.
• Over 25 years of experience supporting legal professionals at all stages of their careers.
Find Out More
Website: https://lawcare.org.uk/
LinkedIn: (25) LawCare – the mental health charity for the legal sector: Overview | LinkedIn
EXPERTS
Mark Evans President of the Law Society and founder of LegalRunner.
Mark has placed mental health and wellbeing at the heart of his presidency, using his platform to encourage open, honest conversations across the legal sector and to champion meaningful change in how the profession supports its people. His commitment goes beyond advocacy — it’s lived experience.
After lockdown, Mark founded LegalRunner, a running community created initially to improve his own health. What began as a personal journey from couch to marathon training in just ten months has grown into a thriving movement of nearly 1,500 legal professionals.
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Elizabeth Rimmer, CEO LawCare, mental health charity for everyone in the legal sector.
Elizabeth started her working life as a solicitor specialising in clinical negligence. She has been managing and developing charities in the mental health sector for over 25 years, and joined LawCare as Chief Executive in 2014.
Elizabeth firmly believes that ‘mental health and wellbeing is a collective responsibility across our profession and by bringing the entire community together, as we do in LawCare that we will find shared ways to create a sustainable and thriving legal profession, that values good mental health and welcomes everyone.’
LawCare – The mental health charity for the legal sector
(25) LawCare – the mental health charity for the legal sector: Posts | LinkedIn
Richard Martin, Chief Executive of Mindful Business Charter.
Richard Martin is a former senior law firm partner whose own experience of serious mental illness has shaped his mission to transform workplace wellbeing. Now a leading voice in mental health, he brings both professional insight and lived experience to his work, splitting his time between London and rural France.
As Executive Officer of the Mindful Business Charter, Richard leads a growing movement of organisations committed to reducing unnecessary stress and creating healthier, more sustainable ways of working. The Charter recognises that while long hours and pressure can sometimes be unavoidable, they should be the exception — and that businesses have a responsibility to do things differently.
Since its launch, the Charter has been adopted by major banks, law firms and corporates, with public signing ceremonies marking its steady expansion. Richard first joined as a consultant in 2019 and stepped into his leadership role in 2022, driving forward its mission to promote mental health awareness, eliminate avoidable stress and embed more thoughtful, human‑centred practices across the workplace
Mindful Business Charter | Re-humanising the workplace
Robert Annis –GWS Partners | Organisational Transformation | London
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robannis – Organisational and Leadership Psychologist | Public Speaker on Inclusive Workplace Strategies | Proudly Neurodivergent
Maeve Monaghan – nowgroup.org | Learning difficulties | Autism | Belfast | Dublin | N Ireland | Ireland –
NOW Group is a multi-award-winning social enterprise based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Dublin, Galway, and expanding across the island of Ireland. We support people who are neurodiverse, autistic, have ADHD, or have a learning disability into finding jobs with a future.
Aggie Mutuma – Mahogany Inclusion Partners – https://mahoganyinclusionpartners.com/aggie-mutuma/
Aggie is a passionate Leadership coach, Inclusion and Anti-Racism expert and engaging speaker who excels at partnering organisations to build winning cultures. Her recent accolades include being voted the 5th Most influential HR thinker in 2024 by fellow people and talent leaders.
Jenny Garrett – Jenny Garrett Global – https://jennygarrett.global/
For 20 years, Jenny Garrett has built one of the UK’s most selective leadership consultancies – working with 10-15 organisations at a time to develop people at the levels that create change. CEO. Founder. OBE. Author. Podcast host.
Samantha Lydon (Ridgewell) – Empower Development – https://empowerdevelopment.co.uk/about-us/
Samantha specialises in supporting insurance professionals develop their personal effectiveness and highlight their career potential.
Steven Ingram – Neurodiversity Together Neurodiversity Together
Neurodiversity Together partners a unique blend of lived experience of neurodivergence alongside a significant management consultancy career, with a specific focus on topics including people, culture, change, learning, org design and HR transformation in order to:
