Experience

MCCRUM CONSULTING

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Oct 2016 - Present

  Simon is a leading Management Consultant helping law firms to strengthen and drive their businesses. A solicitor and former Equity Partner and Managing Partner, he has spent decades leading law firms and legal teams. Simon is a leading Management Consultant helping law firms to strengthen and drive their businesses. A solicitor and former Equity Partner and Managing Partner, he has spent decades leading law firms and legal teams.



Knights

• United Kingdom
• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Client Relations Partner

  • Jan 2016 - Oct 2016

  In Knights' Client Relations Team, we spend time engaging with our clients so we can better put all of our resources at their disposal. We want to ensure they have all the professional support they need to help them to attain their business objectives, to manage risk, and to seize commercial opportunities profitably. By engaging and listening, we work towards a client led-service, rather than the "partner-led" service our competitors boast of. In Knights' Client Relations Team, we spend time engaging with our clients so we can better put all of our resources at their disposal. We want to ensure they have all the professional support they need to help them to attain their business objectives, to manage risk, and to seize commercial opportunities profitably. By engaging and listening, we work towards a client led-service, rather than the "partner-led" service our competitors boast of.



Darbys Solicitors LLP

• United Kingdom
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner

  • Sep 2007 - Jan 2016

  I became Managing Partner in 2007. The firm was in need of a lot of work as it had coasted for a long time. This was also the time though of the Credit Crunch. We went into that recession in bad shape and we had to go a long way back in order to come forward much stronger later. From making a trading loss in 2007 the firm had its best-ever year in 2010, and in 2013 Darbys was the country's fast-growing law firm. This had involved exploring and developing the business of some 15 teams, as well as addressing firm-wide staffing questions, premises, overheads, IT, compliance, PII, and finance.



Pannone

• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Business Development

  • 2006 - 2007

• Marketing Partner

  • 1997 - 2007

• Head of Commercial Litigation

  • 2003 - 2006



Cobbetts LLP

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Solicitor

  • 2000 - 2004



Peter Rickson & Partners

• Solicitor

  • 1994 - 1995