New COO at Shakespeare Putsman
Posted on 02. Mar, 2011 by editor in News & Articles
Birmingham-based law firm Shakespeare Putsman has recruited Steve Taylor (pictured) 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.
