Elliott spent the first six years of his professional life working for a local estate agency in Newport. He joined the firm in 2002 and quickly established himself back into the local property market dealing with the firm’s residential property transactions, working with local property developers, estate agents and landlords.
Due to the ever changing demands on legal firms, Elliott stepped into a Management role in 2008 and is now responsible for ensuring the practice moves forward successfully to meet competitive challenges within the legal profession, along with ensuring the successful development of the firm in line with the strategy identified in the business plan. Elliott is a member of the Chartered Management Institute.
Elliott still deals with some property transactions, but his day to day key duties are:
- To advise on initiatives to improve performance, client care, marketing, best use of IT and management/organisation structure.
- Perform fee earning work accurately, reliably and in accordance with the firm’s quality and risk management procedures.
- Establish an appropriate network of contacts and referrers and endeavour to promote the firm in his professional and personal life.
- Promote standards of best practice and excellence (in line with Lexcel standards) throughout the firm based on principles established in the firms own quality system.
- To develop, monitor and manage the firms financial managment.
- Agree budgets for the practice, monitor income and expenditure and undertake cash flow forecasting.
