Member Forum 2026 Listening, Learning, Shaping the Future

Hook Tangaza provides consultancy and managed services to the legal market. Our focus areas are trade, regulation, education and training, technology and innovation and business development. Our clients include professional and regulatory bodies as well as international institutions, governments and professional services businesses.

Antoinette Moriarty trained as an organisational consultant, psychotherapist, and group analyst, and has over two decades experience working across professional services, educational, and corporate sectors. Antoinette is currently Director of Solicitor Services at the Law Society of Ireland, where she is committed to co-creating, with solicitors, a culture and practice of law that is future fit, performance driven and humanly sustainable.  

Antoinette’s work is deeply informed by systems thinking as well as her clinical and group analytic training, enabling her to approach individual, organisational, and cultural challenges with psychological depth and strategic clarity. Antoinette has designed The Complete Lawyer programme and is curator of the Well Within the Law Festival, both of which have become recognised platforms for innovation in legal wellbeing. 

Antoinette currently serves as a Commissioner for the International Bar Association’s Professional Wellbeing Commission. 

Carla Hoppe is the founder of Wealthbrite, which delivers employee financial education in the legal sector. Wealthbrite helps reduce the distraction money worries can create so that people can focus on their work and giving their clients the best possible advice.

Professor Cherie Armour is Professor of Psychological Trauma and Mental Health in the School of Psychology at Queen's University Belfast and Director of the Research Centre for Stress, Trauma and Related Conditions (STARC), established in 2019 to focus on the psychological wellbeing and mental health of those who have experienced stress, adversity, and trauma. Her research investigates the mechanisms explaining risk and resilience across a wide range of mental health outcomes, with a particular focus on post-adversity psychological resilience. Working across child, adolescent, and adult populations, she examines trauma types including childhood maltreatment, interpersonal, sexual, and domestic violence, and occupational traumas experienced by a range of professionals including healthcare workers, emergency services, armed forces personnel, and more recently those in the legal profession, as well as secondary trauma in families. Her work explores the biological, psychological, and social factors including social support, emotion regulation, sleep, and loneliness, that differentiate post-adversity illness from post-adversity wellness.

Gabriel is one of the lead Directors in GMcG’s Forensic Accounting & Investigation team.  A highly experienced Expert Witness and Forensic Accountant; he joined GMcG’s Belfast office in 1997 and was appointed as partner in 2004. Gabriel specialises in the quantification of claims for loss of earnings, pension and other benefits arising from personal injury claims with a particular interest in those involving catastrophic injuries.

As well as developing and leading the firm’s E-Discovery service, Gabriel also leads GMcG’s financial crime and investigation team which has seen him work on some of the largest and most complex financial crime and proceeds of crime cases in Northern Ireland, a number of which have included multi-jurisdiction aspects. Gabriel also manages a varied portfolio of commercial dispute and professional negligence cases and regularly delivers technical update presentations for a range of professional bodies including Chartered Accountants Ireland, and the Law Society, the Bar Council and Solicitors Associations across Northern Ireland

Holly Poots is Associate General Counsel at Kainos, one of the UK's leading technology companies. She advises on a broad range of commercial and technology matters across the business. Holly is also President of the Queen's Graduates' Association and is passionate about supporting future lawyers, championing diverse career paths and promoting the important role in-house lawyers play in modern organisations. She is a strong advocate for collaboration, professional development and the evolving opportunities available within the legal profession.

Jonathan is a Senior Director who leads the Legal Services Professional Indemnity team at Willis. He specialises in the placement and servicing of Professional Indemnity programmes for complex legal sector clients. He combines strong client leadership with established London Market relationships to secure optimal outcomes and maintains service quality. 

Jonathan leads multidisciplinary teams across broking, claims and analytics, providing clear, strategic advice on risk, coverage and insurer engagement. He has over 13 years’ experience specialising in Solicitors’ Professional Indemnity for large law firms. His early career in handling Professional Indemnity claims gives him valuable insight into programme design and claims outcomes.

Dr Jonny Bloomfield is a leading Executive Coach based in Northern Ireland with over 20 years’ experience at the intersection of elite sport and corporate wellbeing. Holding a PhD in Sports Science, he began his career at Ulster Rugby and went on to become the first Sports Scientist for England Rugby, before consulting for Premier League football clubs, professional golfers, and international rugby teams on fitness, fatigue, sleep, and recovery. Today, he is a UKIHCA Registered Health Coach who specialises in empowering high-performing individuals to develop their health, wellbeing & performance longevity through evidence-based strategies in behaviour change and is the first person in Northern Ireland to achieve the National Board Certification for Health & Wellness Coaching. www.jonnybloomfield.com View Jonny’s TEDx Talk

Joanne has over 14 years of experience helping law firms strengthen their compliance, risk and regulatory arrangements. She works closely with clients to identify key risks, improve processes and develop practical solutions that support their business objectives.

Joanne specialises in independent audits, AML compliance reviews, policy and procedure assessments, and tailored training. She also manages the Law Society of Northern Ireland account, providing trusted guidance and support to firms across a broad range of risk and compliance matters. Known for her collaborative and pragmatic approach, Joanne helps clients navigate regulatory requirements with confidence.

Lenore Rice is a solicitor and founding member of the female‑founded practice Adamson Rice.  She specialises in wealth, asset protection and tax planning, advising clients and their professional teams on strategic estate structuring, Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney and complex estate administrations. She also has significant experience in high‑value matrimonial settlements involving corporate, agricultural and family business structures, trusts and inherited wealth.

She is a full member of STEP, serves on the STEP NI Committee and is an associate member of the Association of Lifetime Lawyers. A trained vulnerable‑person practitioner, Lenore serves on the Council of the Law Society of Northern Ireland, sits on the LSNI Women’s Network Committee and chairs the LSNI Mentoring Committee.  She is also a Women in Business NI Ambassador and Mentor, and mentors with QUB Women in Law.

Lenore contributes to wider women‑in‑law initiatives, including Women in Wills, Women in Tax and the Next 100 Years project, reflecting her commitment to gender equity, professional development and retention across the sector, and to supporting the next generation of female leaders in the profession.  As a founder, she is committed to visible leadership and to creating space for women and small practices to thrive within the profession.

Lenore’s motto to daughters and colleagues:

“If the space isn’t there, create it - and open it for others”