David Fazakerley
Chief Information Officer, MW Solicitors
MW Solicitors is the UK’s largest consumer high street law firm with 25 branches and 450 staff throughout London and the South East and South West of England.
David is a member of the Board and is responsible for the ICT & Operations Strategy that has to ensure the business can grow to 40 branches and 800 staff in the next three years whilst achieving both revenue growth year on year and a reduction in operating costs.
He has already implemented infrastructure and legal software services that has seen the business grow from 160 staff and 10 offices to 450 staff and 25 offices in the last 3 years.
Revenue has grown from £11m to £28m in the last 3 years and he has ensured efficiency savings and cost centre savings of £1.5m in that time.
In 2009 he co-founded a Cloud based IT company providing outsourced IT to law firms first as Chief Operating Officer and then CEO. In just 3 years the company had built up long term legal contracts worth £1.7m and he sold the company to a telecoms firm back in 2013.
David’s professional background has been in Legal IT for the last 10 years, he was Head of IT Service Delivery and then IT Strategy at Eversheds LLP for 3 years between 2006 and 2009. He oversaw the outsourcing of Eversheds ICT department to Computercentre in a deal worth £50m 8 years ago and it still stands as the largest legal outsourcing deal in the UK.