About My Role
I am the Group Chief Executive of Irwin Mitchell.
I have the ultimate responsibility for the management of the Group. As such I sit on the Main Board of the holding company and the Executive Board of the LLP. I lead the team of Executive Directors and I chair a number of groups within the firm.
My roles include involvement in the Remuneration Committee and Nominations Committee. Also, recognising my interest in international matters, I chair the firm’s International Strategy Group. I also have significant CRM responsibilities mainly for some of the firm’s key banking clients and I chair the firm's Banking Services Group.
I regularly engage with the wider business community, and am a member of the Regional Council of the CBI, as well as being involved with the Managing Partners Forum and Network MP. I take an active role in the Sheffield city region, recognising Irwin Mitchell’s place as a major employer in this region (the site of our head office), and am a member of the Sheffield Business Advisory Panel.
A significant external role for me is as a member of the Civil Justice Council, which enables me to engage with an area of both personal and firm interest in the law reform agenda. This role recognised my past experience of work in the litigation field.
Finally, I have other executive functions including being a Board member of Irwin Mitchell Abogados and Coris UK.
Previously, I headed up the firm's Personal Injury Division for over 20 years and oversaw a period of dramatic growth which resulted in the firm becoming one of the leading personal injury firms in the country.
My contribution within that field of law was recognised by my acceptance as a Senior Fellow of APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers).
I have been involved in a number of precedent setting Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence cases, and I have sat on many high level working groups and committees looking at law reform including the Civil Justice Review, the Master of Rolls Working Party on Structured Settlements, and the Chief Medical Officers Advisory Group on Clinical Negligence.
Memberships
- Regional Council of CBI
- Business Advisory Panel (Sheffield)
- Managing Partners Forum
- Network MP
- Trustee of Neurocare
- Action Against Medical Accidents (AVMA)
- American Association for Justice (AAJ) - (formerly ATLA)
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA)
Formerly
- President of the Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL) and founder Board Member
- Secretary and Executive Committee Member of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
- On the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice (AAJ, formerly ATLA) and Chair of the International Relations Committee and International Practice Section
- Vice Chair and Executive Committee member of the Clinical Disputes Forum
- Vice Chair of the Child Brain Injury Trust
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