Bar Council Members

President - George N.H. Jones was initially elected to Bar Council in 2015 and currently serves as the Honorary Secretary. Mr. Jones is SVP - General Counsel and Head of Legal & Compliance for the Americas Region of the Argus Group of companies and serves as Company Secretary for the Group’s companies within the Americas Region. He provides legal advice and co-ordinates all external legal services required by the Americas Region including external advice on Bermuda and Canada legal issues, and directly advises the Chief Executive – Americas Region, and the various relevant Boards as appropriate. He is a key member of the Americas Region executive management team, is based in Bermuda and participates on several key committees. Mr. Jones holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons), is a qualified Solicitor and has been a practicing member of the Bermuda Bar since 2006. Mr. Jones was a practicing attorney at Appleby (Bermuda) Limited within the Corporate & Commercial Practice Group. Mr. Jones currently sits on various charitable and other boards. Mr. Jones also previously sat on the Barristers & Accountants AML/ATF Board assisting in the preparing for the island’s peer evaluation in 2018.

Vice President - Jerome Wilson is a partner in the corporate department of Appleby. He attended Leeds University and the College of Law, London before returning to Bermuda to begin his pupillage with Appleby in 2007. Jerome has been an active member of the Bermuda Bar Association for over 12 years. 

Honorary Secretary - Helen Cooper is a Director in the Private Client & Trust department in the Bermuda office of Conyers Dill & Pearman. Helen joined Conyers in 2001 and became partner in 2009. Helen’s practice covers all aspects of trust and private client law with specialist expertise in private trust company structures, trust reorganisations and international and local estate planning arrangements, as well as providing advice to private banks, charities, beneficiaries and protectors on a variety of trust related matters. She was educated at Colombia University and then at the Inns of Courts School of Law. She was called in Bermuda in 1997.

Kehinde George is a Bermudian who started out life in the UK. She obtained her law degree from King’s College, London, and qualified as a solicitor in England in 1985. She has over 30 years’ experience. She practised as a corporate/commercial lawyer in the City of London for six years post qualification, before spending four years in the UK Government Legal Service advising on insolvency law and policy. In 1995, Kehinde moved to Bermuda and was called to the Bar in 1996. She has practised in insolvency and commercial litigation here since then. Kehinde was one of the founding partners of ASW Law Limited and is Head of ASW’s Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. She has advised on most of the major insolvency proceedings which have taken place in Bermuda in the last 20+ years. She has been a member of Bar Council since 2019 and represents the Bar Council on the Mutual Assistance Committee of the Barristers’ and Accountants’ AML/ATF Board.      

Keith Robinson has practiced in Bermuda for more than 10 years and has been called to the Bar in Northern Ireland (1996), Ireland (2000), Bermuda (2009) and England and Wales (2010). He has two first class degrees in law from Oxford University and two LL.Ms. He has written extensively on Bermuda law and is a regular speaker to audiences both in Bermuda and internationally on Bermuda law. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and an active member of the Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners, Bermuda branch. He serves on the Trust Focus Group and the Trust Law Reform Committee of the Bermuda Business Development Agency, and is a member of the Bermuda branch of Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association.   .

Mark Pettingill has practiced at the Bermuda Bar for over 25 years, having been admitted in June 1992. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education. He is a Barrister Member of Grays Inn. Mark has been successfully involved in several landmark cases on issues involving Same Sex Marriage and has appeared in the Privy Council. Mark was The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice between 2012 and 2014. He was appointed as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 2019 and sits on the Law Reform Commission. He is Head of Chambers of Chancery Legal Ltd. He is a qualified mediator and also undertakes Tribunal work. He is a member of the International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA), and supports SCARS Bermuda, and Masterworks.  

Susan A. Moore-Williams was first called to the Bar in her native Guyana in September 1991. She was called to the Bermuda Bar in May 2000. She is currently Senior Legal Aid Counsel in the Legal Aid Office, Government of Bermuda with management responsibility for the Office and the Legal Aid Scheme. Susan has always had a keen interest in alternative dispute resolution options for clients. She was certified in Collaborative Family Law in 2007 and remained an active member of the Collaborative Law Alliance of Bermuda for several years. Susan has been certified mediator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) since 2017. She is also a member of the Family Mediation Council. Susan is an active volunteer, and currently is a Board member of the Committee of 25.

Attorney General (ex-officio), The Hon. Kathy Lynn Simmons, JP, MP