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I have been consulting in legal practice
since 1985. I qualified as a lawyer in 1977, and was for a time a tax lawyer with
Clifford-Turner (before its merger with Coward Chance).
My consulting work focuses on strategy, globalisation,
mergers and consolidation, economics and valuation, and ownership issues. As well
as law firms, I have also worked with barristers' chambers, government, corporate
and public sector legal departments, banks, law societies and other professional
associations, and patent attorneys. |
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As
a consultant, I practise predominantly as a sole practitioner, although I am more
than happy to work alongside, or as part of a team of, other consultants or advisers.
My usual approach is to work with a firm's management or ownership group to help
them understand their business and objectives more clearly or in greater detail,
but with an emphasis on achievability and implementation. My objective is to help
a firm to help itself. I do not subscribe to the view that lawyers are inherently
poor managers, or that my mission is to cross-sell further services.
In addition to my work as an independent
consultant, I am also Professor of Strategy and Director of the Legal Services
Policy Institute at The College of Law, a Senior Fellow in the Law School at the
University of Melbourne, and a visiting Fellow in the School of Management at
the University of Western Sydney. In
2008, I was appointed to the Ministry of Justice's Strategy Group for Public Legal
Education (chaired by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Lord Bach), and to
the Bar Council's new policy advisory group. |
Prof Stephen Mayson |