Pictured above: Steve Taylor has joined law firm Shakespeare
Putsman LLP in the new role of Chief Operating Officer
Birmingham-based law firm Shakespeare Putsman has recruited
Steve Taylor to the newly-created role of Chief Operating
Officer.
Steve joins the firm from DHL Europe where he was Vice President
Human Resources for Northern Europe with responsibility for 10,000
colleagues in nine countries. He has a strong background in general
management with particular expertise in strategic change
management.
His role at Shakespeare Putsman will be to provide strategic
input and strengthen the firm's operational capabilities in order
to improve the quality of service delivered to clients.
Steve said: "Shakespeare Putsman is clearly an ambitious and
growing business operating against a background of far reaching
change. The economic crisis and the upcoming deregulation of the
legal sector are causing professional services firms to re-evaluate
their whole approach to business. I am really looking forward to
learning more about what drives professional services practitioners
and to using my experience in industry to bring some fresh ideas to
the firm."
Shakespeare Putsman merged with Warwickshire firm Needham &
James on 1 July 2010 and Nottingham firm Berryman on 1 November
2010, creating one of the Midlands' largest law firms, serving
clients based across the Midlands and throughout the UK. With
annual revenues of c. £30m it employs 450 people across the
region.