James Wright
James’ career in Legal Finance spans over 25 years. Working in medium to large law firms, managing their legal finance functions.
His knowledge and experience in understanding the SRA Accounts Ruled has enabled him to provide extensive support to the COFA and build processes and procedures to enable compliance.
James has managed a large number of SRA audits, resulting in no material breach reports being submitted to the SRA.
James measures his success in Legal Finance on the teams he has managed, being a mentor and support to them to enable their own success.
James has also been a Tutor for the Institute of Legal Finance and Management for their Diploma course, which during his time saw the number of students passing their final exam rise to 90%.
James has also written practice and guidance notes both internally and for external clients and legal software providers.
His awards include employee of year, office go to for two years, support team of the year and the Institute of Legal Finance and Management Aran bowl winner for outstanding contribution to the Institute.