Nigel Haddon

Background

About Nigel Haddon

My consultancy is focused on three things- Pricing for lawyers and accountants- Acting as a ‘critical friend’ for law firm leaders- M&A in the legal sector. I spent over 30 years as a solicitor in private practice, the last nine of them as Managing Partner and CEO of a successful regional law firm, one which I helped move from being a ‘High Street’ general practice to being a credible alternative to city-based competitors. I am a former Chair of the Law Management Section of the Law Society, editor of the same Section’s Merger Toolkit and an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s Leading Professional Service Firms course. My intertest in Pricing was sparked by working at my old firm with my former colleague Richard Burcher back in 2013, and my work in that field since 2014 has been recognised by my appointment as a Teaching Fellow in Pricing on the Master of Legal Business course at the College of Law Australia. I have worked with over 100 firms on pricing, in more than 10 jurisdictions. My experiences in private practice serve me well in providing both challenge and support to the leadership teams of law firms, whether as a 'critical friend', Non-Exec director or on an ad hoc basis. While in private practice, I led on four mergers and/or acquisitions, and have subsequently built on that hands-on experience in my work in this area with both Mosaic Legal and the Association of Law Firm Merger Advisers.