Fiona Westwood

Fiona has 20 years experience working as a solicitor in private practice. From 1987 to 1993, she was an equity partner in a large legal firm with offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh in charge of provision of a wide range of quality commercial client services, leading a team of solicitors.  She was also a member of its management team and Business Development Partner with responsibility for marketing and implementation of the growth of the firm.

She established Westwood Associates in 1994 as a management and training consultancy specialising in strategic planning and management development for professional firms in particular. Its services include business planning, management and client development projects.  For more information see www.westwood-associates.com.

McGraw-Hill nominated her book, Achieving Best Practice – Shaping Professionals for Success, as their September 2000 Book of the Month. The revised edition of her second book, Accelerated Best Practice – implementing success in professional firms, was published in November 2008. In addition, she writes regularly for business and professional publications, including The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, and Managing for Success as well as speaking at business conferences throughout the UK.

She has served as a co-opted member of the Practice Management and Client Care Committees of The Law Society of Scotland, as CPD Project Leader of their Education and Training Review and is a member of their current Working Party on Professional Standards.

She has been a part-time Post Graduate Tutor at Edinburgh and Dundee Universities and Senior Lecturer at the Glasgow Graduate School of Law on the Diploma in Legal Practice and Professional Competence Course.