Michelle is a Partner at Brightstone Law and our Compliance Officer for Legal Practice. She takes responsibility for our systems and controls, as well as making sure processes are in place to ensure we are fully compliant with the SRA Standards and Regulations.

Highly knowledgeable and experienced, Michelle is the first point of call for our clients on practice and regulation issues and has been invited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to participate in a round table discussion on the risk facing the legal profession.  In 2017, 2019 and 2021, the SRA asked Michelle to present to its Compliance Officers Conference on the processes and procedures implemented by Brightstone Law to address the ever-increasing risk of cybercrime and continuing competence.

Michelle has spoken at the Law Society Data Protection conference and in addition she gave a presentation on the role of a Compliance Officer for Legal Practice at the Legal Practice Management Conference.

Externally, Michelle provides customer support on money laundering issues.

Internally, Michelle is responsible for the training and development of staff including key areas of Anti-money laundering, data and cyber security.