About the In-house Network advisory committee

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Committee members

Luke Corcoran

Luke is a lawyer within the Government Legal Department (GLD) advising on procurement and commercial law.

Luke studied philosophy and politics at the University of Manchester and completed the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at Leeds Metropolitan University and the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at BPP Law School.

Prior to joining GLD, Luke worked at national firm Simpson Millar LLP as a paralegal, trainee and newly qualified solicitor in the commercial department.

Amanda Gill (chair)

Amanda is a managing director at Deutsche Bank, co-heading the finance, lending and capital markets legal team in London.

The team advises various businesses across the investment banking division and capital release unit of the bank on the legal and regulatory implications of a wide range of cross-border products.

Amanda joined Deutsche Bank in 2006. She previously spent eight years working in Clifford Chance's London and New York offices.

Amanda has been an advisory committee member since 2018. She is also a school governor for the Bridge, Integrated Learning Space and chair of a local residents association.

Sophie Gould (vice chair)

Sophie is the head of learning and development at Flex Legal.

With over 30 years' experience in the legal sector, Sophie's background includes working as a corporate commercial lawyer in the City, and as the head of legal for various media companies.

Sophie has founded forums and runs events for in-house lawyers. She is a great advocate for supporting social mobility in the profession.

Since the launch of Flex Trainee in 2021, she has been an instrumental figure in training, mentoring and developing the trainees throughout their in-house placements.

James Iveson

James is head of legal for N Brown Group plc – a leading online fashion and homewares retailer headquartered in Manchester.

He supports all areas of the business, including from a company secretarial perspective, and with a focus on high-value IT contracts.

James has over 10 years’ experience specialising as a commercial, IP and IT lawyer, with seven of those years being spent in-house.

James has been a member of the advisory committee for four years and is a passionate advocate for the interests of in-house lawyers. 

Charlotte Lakin

Charlotte works as legal counsel for Inchcape UK and is the founder of inlaw. She trained in-house at Global.

She won the Rising Star In-House Lawyer of the Year award at the Women in Law Awards 2020. She previously worked for Hovis, ASOS and the John Lewis Partnership.

Charlotte previously sat on the 2020/21 and 2017/18 executive committee of the Junior Lawyers Division.

Joss Saunders

Joss is the general counsel and company secretary at Oxfam, where he has been since 1998.

Before then he worked in Uganda, in the City, and in France, Germany and Poland. He was one of the founders of Advocates for International Development (A4ID), Legal Response International, and Lawyers Against Poverty where he was also the first director.

Joss is a director of Action4Justice.org. He contributed to the Law Society publication, the Future of the In-House Lawyer, and contributes to several other publications. 

Abigail Stallard

Abigail has worked in-house since qualifying in 2009, and is a senior legal counsel at Allianz.

In previous roles, Abigail has been general counsel of a SME insurance company and legal counsel in a shipping company. Her first legal counsel role was in a multinational travel company.

Sarah Watt

Sarah is head of healthcare litigation at NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, Legal & Risk Services.

She has represented the NHS in clinical negligence litigation and healthcare law for over 25 years. She worked for two leading defendant firms before joining the NHS in-house team in Wales in 2003.

Sarah has extensive experience of complex investigations, multi-million pound claims, multi-party claims and ensuring learning from events. She is one of the lead solicitors representing the NHS in Wales in the COVID-19 Public Inquiry.

Sarah particular enjoys driving efficiency and change, and providing training, mentoring and support to others.