Governance-Council and Executive

Council

The governing body of The Law Society is its Council. The Council is comprised of the Attorney-General and the Deans of the Law Faculties of the University of Adelaide, UniSA and Flinders University as ex-officio members, together with the seven eight members of the Executive of the Council, fourteen ordinary members, three members representing practitioners from country areas and two members representing newly-admitted practitioners.

If not a member of Council, the Society's representative on the Law Council of Australia has an ex-officio position.

Executive

The Executive of the Council of The Law Society is comprised of a President, the Immediate Past President, a President-Elect, a Vice President, a Treasurer, two other members drawn from the ordinary members of Council and the LCA Representative.

Council

Office Bearers

Mr Richard Mellows
President

Torrens Chambers

Mr Ralph Bönig
President Elect

Fountain & Bönig

Ms Jane Schammer
Vice President & LCA Representative    

Gilchrist Connell

Mr James Jarvis
Treasurer

Finlaysons

Mr John Goldberg
Immediate Past President

Cowell Clarke

Ordinary Members

Mr Morry Bailes

Tindall Gask Bentley

Ms Shelley Broadbent

Barr Lawyers

Mr Roderick Genders

Genders & Partners

Mr Scott Henchliffe

Edmund Barton Chambers

Ms Kate Henning

Wallmans Lawyers

Mr Michael Janus

Janus Lawyers

Mr Manik Meah

Fisher Jeffries

Mr Tim Mellor

Mellor Olsson

Mr Grant Mitchell

Minter Ellison

Ms Kristie Molloy

Mitchell Chambers

Ms Shelley O'Connell

Barr Lawyers

Ms Cathy Parsonage

Duncan Basheer Hannon

Mr Rocky Perrotta

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth)

Ms Dami Sheldon

Australian Securities & Investments Commission

Mr John White

Mitchell Chambers

Country Members

Mr Sebastian Hill, Northern &
Western District

Boylan Lawyers

Mr Tom Rymill, Southern District

Thomas Rymill & Co

Mr Philip Westover, Central District

Mason Westover Homberg

Junior Members

Mr David Caruso

University of Adelaide - Law School

Ms Kim Eldridge

Fisher Jeffries

Ex-Officio Members

Professor Rosemary Owens

University of Adelaide

Professor David Bamford

Flinders University of South Australia

Professor Paul Fairall

University of South Australia

The Hon John Rau MP

Attorney-General

Law Council Director

Ms Jane Schammer

Gillchrist Connell

Executive

Mr Richard Mellows
President

Torrens Chambers

Mr Ralph Bönig
President Elect

Fountain & Bönig

Ms Jane Schammer
Vice President & LCA Representative

Gilchrist Connell

Mr James Jarvis
Treasurer

Finlaysons

Mr John Goldberg
Immediate Past President

Cowell Clarke

Mr Michael Janus
Member

Janus Lawyers

Mr John White
Member

Mitchell Chambers