Highly accomplished professional with 15+ years of success in the legal / regulatory industry, specifically the sub-discipline of family law. Core skills include:

• A recognised ability to forge enduring working relationships with clients, colleagues and with other stakeholders

• Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral (to include in the context of presentations / advocacy), with awareness of when and how to tailor communication to the recipient audience; a confident event organiser and presenter

• An astute and perceptive negotiator

• Excellent analytical skills, demonstrated by an ability to understand legislation and case law and apply it to a set of facts to predict possible and likely outcomes

• An extremely accomplished author and copywriter, with particular skill in ensuring complex information and concepts are accessible to, and understood by, a broad audience

• An ability to deliver results within (often court-mandated) timescales, and within clients’ costs budgets

• A track-record of achieving or exceeding financial, marketing and customer care KPIs

• Experience in drafting content and design of communications (web and hardcopy) for internal and external stakeholders, and in utilising social media to achieve maximum circulation and PR

• Advanced computer and IT skills

• First-rate research skills, to date focused on legal research but readily capable of being deployed in other disciplines

• Considerable exposure to preparing successful bid and tender documentation

Experienced in managing and overseeing other professionals and support staff, undertaking appraisals and providing and delivering feedback, both positive and developmental. Proficient at managing multidisciplinary teams, identifying the skillsets and personnel required, and acting as lynchpin and manager, from the macro- to the micro-level.