About Jane Meads

Background

Jane has over 20 years’ experience of working within legal practices and advisor firms as a legal secretary (in most departments), credit controller and office manager. She has worked with Robert Cartmell on previous occasions and has been working alongside him again since September 2020.

Expertise/Strengths

Her main strengths lie a commitment to a high level of organisation, work-ethic and all round expertise.  With her experience in the legal profession and in particular private client departments, those strengths give her the tools to educate others in the optimum performance of a number of important support functions in a law firm or similar practice.

Jane’s Role

Role areas for you and your firm include:

Training of PA and legal support staff for your firm’s Partners/Heads of Department/lawyers; including: 

  • Workflows to support team, project management of the legal products/services
  • Effective Diary Management (including focus time)
  • File reviews, monitoring
  • remote office working arrangements
  • time sheets/work-logs/dictation/use of systems

Credit Control and Billing – for Private Client Department

  • creating and implementation of systems including:
  • fixed fee costs and hourly rate based cost systems of work
  • practical billing of time and costs
  • reviewing files to ensure timely billing and provision of cost information to clients

Compliance and Regulatory – for Private Client Department

  • ensuring that all members of the team understand their duties to the clients and to the firm
  • Execution of legal documents – compliance.

Departmental

  • Ensuring a practical system is created and implemented for the overall improvement of products and services in the area.
  • Organising Departmental meetings/minutes/actioning and implementation

Focus

Jane focuses on the balance of the needs of the clients (and managing expectations) and the needs of the firm.

Outside work

Outside of the working environment, Jane lives with her teenage son and has a wide range of interests including being a match playing member for Aylesbury Lawn Tennis Club.