Mark Slade is Managing Partner of Fidler & Pepper Solicitors. He qualified as a solicitor in 1989, and became a partner in 1990.

Martyn has been Practice Manager at Breeze and Wyles Solicitors LLP since the start of 2000 and has overseen the substantial growth of the firm since then.

In the Chair this week features Paul Lowe, Operations Director of Darbys Solicitors LLP, a 21 partner firm in Oxford.

Ian has spent his entire legal career with Warner Goodman, believes fervently in involving staff at all levels in the shaping of the firm’s future. Ian thinks that if you snapped him in half, you’d read Warner Goodman, going through him like a stick of rock. He loves all things cricket.

Mark Hovell is Managing Partner of Manchester’s George Davies Solicitors LLP and the 2011 Winner of the LawNet Managing Partner of the Year Award.

Rob Salisbury Senior Partner of Gamlins, North Wales

Martin Jinks is Senior Partner and Head of Business Services at Bakewells Solicitors, based in the East Midlands.

Robert Beattie is Senior Partner of Toller Beattie LLP, based in North Devon.

A team from Gamlins in Rhyl have taken the LawNet Challenge title, completing an 11 mile course with a 3800 foot ascent to the summit of Snowdon, in a blistering 269 minutes and 10 seconds.