meet our people
All our consultants worked at the SRA for many years. Coupled with experience of working in private practice (seven of our team as qualified solicitors), we are ideally placed to support busy practitioners with practical advice and design and implement compliance and risk management systems fit for the real world.
Richard Robinson
Richard Robinson, a qualified solicitor (non-practising), has worked in private practice as well as for the regulator. In over ten years as a senior adviser with the SRA’s Practice Standards Unit, he designed and implemented practical compliance and risk management...
Jonathan Fidler
Jonathan Fidler is a qualified solicitor (non-practising) and spent over eight years with first the Law Society and then the SRA as a Practice Standards Adviser. In that time Jonathan undertook compliance audits with more than 300 legal practices, ranging from sole...
Andrew Becconsall
Andrew Becconsall qualified as a solicitor in 1992 with city firm Penningtons. In over ten years working for the regulator, Andrew developed a deep understanding of all aspects of compliance and regulation including the SRA Accounts Rules. He has vast practical...
Dawn Lindop
Dawn Lindop is a non-practising solicitor. She worked in the litigation department of a large commercial law firm for four years before joining the Law Society’s investment business monitoring team. Dawn was a founder member of the SRA’s Practice Standards Unit and...
Jenny Eden
Jenny worked at the Law Society and the SRA for over 20 years in various roles, mainly in Policy where she developed a reputation for being the SRA’s expert on referral fees. She was instrumental in the SRA’s implementation of the ban on referral fees in personal...
Samantha Orsborne
Samantha qualified as a solicitor in 1992 and worked in private practice for over 10 years before joining the SRA’s Practice Standards Unit in 2003. Whilst working for the SRA, she gained substantial regulatory and compliance experience, undertaking monitoring visits...
Ian East
Ian qualified as a solicitor in 2002 having completed a training contract with Leo Abse & Cohen Solicitors in Cardiff. Following qualification he moved to John Collins and Partners in Swansea to practice employment law. Ian joined the Forensic Investigation department...
Sarah Hall
Sarah qualified as a solicitor in 1990. Having practised law in private practice and in-house for ten years, she moved into regulatory consulting and was a director of KPMG’s regulatory consulting team. She subsequently became an independent consultant and has run...
Carole-Ann Shimmin
Carole-Ann worked for The Law Society/Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for over twenty years. She has a vast amount of experience with SRA investigations and compliance with SRA rules and regulations. She worked for eight years as a Forensic Investigation Officer...
Yasmin Robinson
Yasmin set up Legal Compliance Services with Richard and is responsible for the development and maintenance of our internal systems and processes, organising the team and making things happen. She holds a degree in business management and spent eight years travelling...