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Curriculum
Vitae Julie recognised that the frenetic pace
of the legal aid reform programme was placing a major strain on legal aid
firms in terms of being able to interpret and respond to the varied
proposals. SQM Solutions, under Julie’s leadership, has significant
experience of working with a variety of legal aid practices with an
excellent track record of helping firms maintain their LSC contracts whilst
maximising their income from legal aid. Julie is a graduate of Keele University
with a BA Hons in Law and Management Science. She also holds the Diploma in
Legal Practice from the Chester College of Law. Since graduating she has
worked in both the public and private sector including managing the
Litigation Department of a major American finance company and working in
the Human Resources Department of a Public Limited Company before
specialising in the field of legal consultancy.
Curriculum
Vitae With a background in Economic Geography
and GIS, Andrew has over 25 years experience in research and consultancy
including the collection and management of statistics and provision of high
quality advice to many private and public sector clients in the fields of
development and regeneration, economics, housing, planning, property,
health and GIS. This is provided by making extensive use of government and
academic online databases and data services. Andrew has a BA Hons in Geography and a
postgraduate diploma in Geographical Information Systems.
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One of the benefits of having left the
LSC and converting from gamekeeper to poacher is being able to meet up with
the firms I previously used to audit. Whilst many of them have evolved in
Darwinian terms into more effective firms, you would be amazed at how many
firms are still using vintage 1993 office manuals.
"... many
firms are still using vintage 1993 office manuals"
File review should be working for you not the LAA
or Lexcel. The worst thing I see is hundreds of
file review checklists all pristinely ticked off as compliant with not a
single observation or comment. File reviews are the best tool you have
available for checking the quality of work your firm does and for
supervising your junior fee-earners. If you had an errant fee-earner are
you confident your file review system would pick it up? How do you select
files? Do you look for items peer reviewers look for or is it all ticks in
boxes? Challenging your file review system and re-examining your Office Manual is healthy and the mark of a good firm. Make it your next New Year's resolution...
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