Clare Mellor is Chief Executive of Thompsons Solicitors, leading and championing the firm’s purpose to be a collective force for social justice, based upon legal expertise, innovation & values. She is instrumental in the firm retaining its position as a top legal firm in its area of law and building on its 100-year legacy.
Clare oversees the firm’s strategic direction and day-to-day leadership across all practice areas, ensuring Thompsons continues to protect and advance workers’ rights and deliver justice, as well as remaining deeply committed to the trade union movement.
Highly organised and detail-driven, Clare fosters innovation and actively encourages the next generation of Thompsons lawyers to take on the pioneering cases for which the firm is known.
Clare has created an environment where the next generation of Thompsons Solicitors’ lawyers are actively encouraged to pursue the sort of pioneering cases for which the firm has built a reputation. Clare constantly strives to support and to bring forward innovative and forward-looking ideas so that Thompsons is there looking after workers’ rights for the next 100 years.
Since joining the firm in 1996 as a personal injury specialist, Clare has held a range of senior roles—including branch manager for London and later the south-east network—before becoming Operations Director in 2015 and joining the executive board. She was appointed Chief Executive in September 2020.