In Memory of Dorothy Livingston

The CLLS is sad to inform our members of the passing of Dorothy Livingston, for 25 years Chair of the CLLS Financial Law Committee, and a member of the CLLS Competition Law Committee as well. She was in addition a Freeman of our sister organisation, the City of London Solicitors’ Company.

Dorothy's career was unique in the history of our organisation and truly groundbreaking in the legal profession. Her impact across the range of work carried out by the Financial Law committee was formidable. She led the CLLS in its work advising HM Treasury, BEIS and its predecessors, other government departments, HMRC, the Bank of England, the Law Commission, and other organisations across a wide range of issues for some forty years, contributing to the development of the City of London as the financial centre that we know today. She was the first woman ever to become Partner at Herbert Smith, and her impact in blazing a trail for women solicitors was quite rightly recognised nationally in the recent “First 100 Years” celebrations of women in the legal profession.

Dorothy was a cherished colleague and friend to many of you and we are deeply saddened by her death. She will be remembered at the annual service for the City of London Solicitors’ Company and the CLLS in May next year, to which all our members are welcome.