Ian Dodd
Ian Dodd is an experienced business manager who has worked in a number of industries and professions in the this country and abroad. From agribusiness, transportation and logistics & leisure manufacturing in the UK and Europe to telecommunications in the UK, USA and North Africa

John Binks
A solicitor, John joined the Legal Services Commission in 2000 filling a series of senior management roles including Contract Manager and Regional Director. John was involved in numerous high level projects including secondment to the Carter Review the 2010 Best Value Tendering Pilot.

Andrew Otterburn
Andrew has advised around 250 firms on their management, future strategy and profitability. Author of "Profitability & Law Firm Management", his latest book "From Recession to Upturn - financial management and strategy for law firms" was also published by the Law Society. Andrew is a member of the Executive Committee of the Law Management Section, a core MBA faculty member and module leader for the Nottingham Law School MBA, and a lead tutor for the MMU Postgraduate Certificate in Legal Practice Management.

Vicky Ling
Founder member of the Civil Justice Council chaired by the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, advises firms on quality standard compliance, in particular the LSC Quality Mark and Lexcel. She assists firms in meeting LSC contract requirements and making legal aid profitable. She edited "The Carter Survival Handbook" in 2007.

Fiona Westwood
Fiona provides both consultancy and coaching to a wide range of professional firms. She is a member of the Law Society of Scotland's Standards Working Party. The updated version of her book, "Accelerated Best Practice" was published in 2008. Her specialities are strategic development and leadership coaching. Her main focus in both is helping her clients achieve strategic change, as implementation of change is especially difficult for professional service organisations with their complicated ownership structures.

Colin Fitzpatrick
Colin is a Chartered Accountant and was a partner in Grant Thornton for 10 years where he was on the National Legal Business Panel and Business Valuation Panel. Colin is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has extensive Forensic Accounting experience.
Since 1998 Colin has been a Partner in FitzPatrickRoyle, through which he services Legal Business clients and undertakes Legal Business consultancy assignments, mainly covering Partnership structures, Mergers and Dissolutions.

Associates

Chris Denington
Chris Denington is the Managing Director of Zinc Resourcing, a recruitment and human resources management consultancy based in Chancery Lane, London established in 1999. Zinc works closely with private companies and professional practices across all areas of recruitment and human resources management. Prior to this he had a career in line HR, most recently at Grant Thornton, where he ran the Human Resources division of the Management Consultancy with offices based in London, Manchester and Leeds.

At Grant Thornton his role was focussed on implementing HR solutions into clients and potential clients of the firm. Chris has carried out a large number of HR consulting assignments for a wide range of privately owned companies and professional practices, including law firms and barristers chambers.

Vanessa Shenton
Vanessa has an extensive background in solicitors' regulation and compliance. Her background includes private litigation practice and as an "after the event" legal expense insurance underwriter, assessing a variety of disputes (including professional negligence) and managing a team of underwriters. Vanessa became the Law Society's costs manager dealing with costs, conditional fees and expense insurance. More recent roles include advisor within the SRA's Practice Standards Unit.

In January 2007, Vanessa founded The Compliance Partner offering services on the interpretation of rules, SRA visits, enquiries and adjudications, drafting compliance documentation and advising on the compliance angle of new law firm structures and third party relationships. She authored "Preparing for a Practice Standards Unit Visit" published by ARK. Vanessa sits on the Law Society's Law Management Section and its Rules and Ethics Committees which keep her up to date on changes and consultations.