Our management team is a dedicated group of professionals drawn from legal and commercial backgrounds.
Adrian Marlowe, our Managing Director, practised as a solicitor* for 20 years before setting up Lawspeed in 1997. He is responsible for developing our extensive portfolio of products and services, including the widely used Lawspeed contract templates.
Adrian is regarded by many as a leading authority on "recruitment law", has headed up various group representations to givernment since 2001 and is chair of the trade body the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC). Adrian was the driving force behind the ARC's critical and highly successful stance on the Agency Workers Regulations. Adrian is also a member of the Genesis Initiative, a cross parliamentary SME support group, and is one of two appointed representatives responsible for reporting on the Agency Workers Regulations to the European SME group UAPME, which feeds into the European Parliament.
Ravi Murphy, Director, has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business
Management and passed the solicitors' qualification exams with a
distinction. Before joining Lawspeed in 2000 Ravi gained extensive
experience in all areas of risk management having spent 12 years working
for a blue chip insurance company and a Lloyds syndicate. She has
considerable experience of underwriting, risk assessment and claims
handling as well as a significant expertise in recruitment law.
Ravi
is our client services director and is responsible for business
development. She is also a co-director and founder of the trade body ARC
which she and Adrian set up in 2009 (see above).
Ravi
specialises in contractual arrangements, commercial strategy, risk
management, compliance issues and data protection in addition to
recruitment and employment law issues.
Rebecca Marlowe, Director went
into recruitment as a graduate and spent 15 years in the industry,
first as a consultant then in sales management. Joining Lawspeed in
2003, now a co-director, she brings an understanding of the
practicalities of the recruitment process as well as the operational and
management issues faced by recruiters.
Rebecca is responsible for marketing and internal support functions.
Theresa Mimnagh, Associate Director qualified
as a solicitor* in February 2004 and previously worked in private
practice as an employment lawyer. She joined Lawspeed in 2005 and
specialises in employment law, recruitment law, discrimination,
employment status, employment contracts and policies as well as tax
related issues.
Theresa heads up our client support and audit
team and speaks regularly at our seminars on employment related
subjects. More recently Theresa has become one of our chief presenters
on the Agency Workers Regulations and is an expert on related issues.
Ben Grover, Senior Legal Consultant qualified
as a solicitor* in October 2008 and worked at two firms in their
company commercial divisions before joining Lawspeed in June 2009.
Ben
heads our government liaison and lobbying group. Ben specialises in
recruitment and contract law, and is an expert on the agency regulations
including the Agency Workers Regulations.
Lawspeed is supported by an additional team of specialist consultants.
*
All staff are non-practising solicitors in their roles at Lawspeed