Richard Allen

Richard has 40 years’ unique litigation, legal costs and practice management experience, being one of the first to achieve Costs Lawyer status and make partner in a solicitor’s practice.

He was a founding and longest serving non-executive director of the Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB) and is an accredited mediator and coach.

Richard has vast experience handling significant litigation and costs caseloads for major law firms, establishing and managing several litigation and costs departments nationally, including a top 50 practice, and having a central role managing a full-service regional solicitors’ practice.

Richard specialises in boosting profitability and performance, focusing on professional services pricing, together with costs, case and practice management, both in the UK and internationally. These skills led Richard to become an Accredited Training Provider for both the CLSB and the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) and succeeding Antony Smith, is the only authorised trainer in the UK and The Republic of Ireland to deliver the IILPM’s certified training courses in Legal Project Management and Legal process Improvement. This has naturally progressed in delivering Burcher Jennings unique and one-of-a-kind Legal Profitability Programme, bringing the perfect trinity of pricing, project management and process improvement to deliver groundbreaking profitability and efficiencies to law firms and in-house legal teams.