With her roots from the midlands in Ireland, Elaine Quinn has worked in international law settings for almost 20 years, the last 10 of which she has spent on a personal journey of tracking and understanding a major awakening movement taking place in society but with a particular interest in the legal field. The practice of law always felt like a vocation for Elaine but it was a pivotal experience 15 years ago that brought this into clearer focus. After winning a prize for achieving the highest academic results in her professional law practice course, she had this sense that ‘on paper’ she should be an excellent lawyer but on a daily basis all she felt was anxiety and discomfort with the business of law.
Following instead a deep commitment to make inner peace her highest priority, she realised that – contrary to what had been modelled and taught to her – it was possible to practice law from a deeply unified state. This realisation led to a series of (ongoing) unravellings where the field of deep separation and disconnection that runs through the legal field became more starkly clear. This journey has led, and continues to lead, Elaine all the way back to the wisdom held by Lady Justice and her ancient mother goddesses that urge us to remember that truth, justice and honour are sacred feminine qualities waiting to be reborn and re-embodied. The indigenous system of ancient Brehon law in Ireland is also woven into these rememberings.
A legal alchemist, word-weaver and creatrix, Elaine has trained with both meditation experts, healing experts and master teachers of embodiment and feminine energetics. She is a certified meditation teacher and an apprentice in a world-class feminine mystery school. Between 2017-2020, Elaine founded and edited a successful online magazine dedicated to the awakening movements within law around the world.
The work she is being drawn deeply to now is speaking, teaching and practicing back into being deep feminine wisdom into women’s lives, particularly the legal aspects (drawing on her own work and experience). This is legal wisdom that will unify and nourish rather than separate and disconnect.




The Conscious Lawyer
Elaine founded The Conscious Lawyer in 2016 coming up with the idea during a period of research at Keele University in the UK. She was looking into the possibility of integrating mindfulness into legal education. At the same time, Elaine was working as a Senior Practice Development Lawyer at Pinsent Masons LLP in London, and responsible for producing a lengthy client bulletin/magazine on insurance law. Impacted deeply by the disillusioning state of affairs in legal education (as described in several of the books and articles she was reading), she set about using the skills she was learning as an editor to create a new magazine in law that would offer a different and more hopeful perspective – especially for law students and young lawyers.
It covers innovative and emerging practices of law such as Collaborative Law, Conscious Contracts, Contemplative/Mindful Law, Community Law, Cooperative Law, Earth Law/Nature’s Rights, Holistic Law, Integrative Law, New Economy Law, Restorative Justice, Sharing Law, Sustainable Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence. There were five issues published between 2017-2020 with plenty of online articles in between. Read on Medium here.
Links
Issue 1 / Issue 2 / Issue 3 / Issue 4 / Issue 5





