Adam Makepeace has been involved in legal practice management and compliance for more than 15 years, including having managed respectively the country’s largest civil legal aid firm (Duncan Lewis – 2007- 2011) and the largest criminal legal aid firm (Tuckers – 2011 – 2021). He works with Reeds in the capacity of its Compliance Officer for Legal Practice.
A qualified solicitor, Adam has had a diverse career in private practice including spells as a residential conveyancer on the one hand and dealing with spread betting litigation & international arbitration for Russian oligarchs on the other. He turned his back on practising law in 2005, after completing his MBA, and he now devotes all his time to the better management of law firms.
Adam Makepeace has been a member of the Law Society’s Crime Practitioners’ Group for 10 years and has regularly been a member of delegations to the Ministry of Justice to engage with government on policy relating to the criminal justice system and legal aid funding, including the government’s 18 month review of criminal justice which commenced at the beginning of 2019.
In 2018, Adam won both the inaugural LAPG award for Practice Manager of the Year, as well as the award for Access to Justice through IT, based on the development of Tuckers’ CaseRatio software.
