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A day in the life of ... Nigel Shepherd (Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve and National Chair, Resolution)

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Date:9 JAN 2017
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Nigel Shepherd Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve and National Chair Resolution

What is your position and what you do on a day-to-day basis?

Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve and also National Chairman Resolution.  In my day job for Mills & Reeve I combine ongoing client work with involvement in various projects such as effective working strategies training and learning and business development. 

How long have you been in this role and what brought you here?

Family law has always formed part of my practice since I qualified over 35 years ago. In the early days I was a 'general practitioner' combining my family law work with crime commercial litigation and even some prosecution work. For the last 25 years or so however I have been a family law specialist. I became Head of Family for Mills & Reeve in June 2016.

I joined Resolution in the mid-1980s. I chaired the North West region for a few years until I got elected to Resolution’s National Committee in 1991.  I have been an NC member for all but 2 years...

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