About the Small Firms Network
What we do
We give members the opportunity to discuss issues of concern, make their views heard, and network and connect with peers.
The Small Firms Network supports engagement with sole and small firm practitioners.
What you'll benefit from
- Access to audio-only content on topics such as anti-money laundering, professional indemnity insurance and effective pricing
- Updates on upcoming events and learning opportunities
- A wide range of resources to help you navigate the challenges faced by small firms, including on business management, client care, regulation and cybersecurity
- Up-to-date news and articles on the latest developments affecting small firms
- Access to our free and confidential Practice Advice Service
- 30 minutes free research from our library's remote enquiry service
- 10% discount at Six Clerks restaurant and bar
- Results from our annual Financial Benchmarking Survey
How to join
Membership is free and there's no registration or enrolment process.
You're automatically part of the Small Firms Network community if you're a solicitor in a one-to-four partner firm.
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- using the green sign-up button at the top of this page, or
- adding 'small firm' or 'sole practitioner' to your favourite My LS topics
Meet the Small Firms Network committee
Our committee promotes the interests of the community and helps us provide effective support for solicitors working in the sector.
Parvien Akhtar (vice chair)
Parvien is the founding director of Bright Legal Solicitors in Leicester. She qualified in 1998 and has over 20 years' experience in litigation.
In addition to running her practice, Parvien is involved in property development and investment. Parvien is also a committee member of the Leicestershire Law Society.
Nazmin Choudhury
Nazmin, born in London but of Bangladeshi heritage, is one of the first in her generation to attain a law degree.
After qualifying in 1992, she set up NC Law in 2010 – a few doors from her father's restaurant, which is named after her. The practice deals with conveyancing, commercial and residential, civil litigation, and wills and probate.
Nazmin is zealous about the rights of sole practitioners, especially their exclusion from many lenders' panels.
Priya Dhokia
Priya is a partner, head of family and private wealth at Freedman Green Dhokia, a boutique law firm.
She advises on complex cases, often with an international dimension, generally for high-net worth clients, involving complex offshore trusts, tax issues and corporate structures.
She is a member of Resolution, an association of specialist family lawyers committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes.
Jennifer Dougal
Jennifer is a solicitor and experienced operations director who has lead and implemented IT focused transformation projects within medium and small sized law firms for the past 10 years, which have delivered efficiency savings and improved customer engagement.
Jennifer currently works in-house as an Operations Director for Premex, which is owned by Examworks, a global provider of healthcare services.
As a committee member of our Small Firms Network, Jennifer continually speaks with solicitors operating and running small firms and she believes strongly that law firms of all sizes and budgets should have access to the relevant information and funding available, to help them thrive so that the legal sector can continue to provide accessible and cost effective legal services for consumers.
Anthony Earl (chair)
Anthony is a solicitor-director at Earl and Crocker Solicitors, a general high street practice he has managed for over 20 years. The firm has three offices in Cornwall.
Anthony specialises in commercial and residential property.
He was Cornwall Law Society president in 2015/16, and president of the Association of South Western Law Societies for 2017/18.
Emma Egerton-Jones
Emma is an award-winning solicitor and founder of Egerton-Jones Consulting.
She is a highly regarded consultant specialising in client experience and business development for legal services.
Emma is committed to supporting law firm owners. She is driven to ensure strategy coaching and business development training is accessible to small firms nationwide via her business, the Legal Development Hub.
She is passionate about upskilling junior lawyers, access to law and wellbeing in the profession, regularly donating her time to these causes.
Donna Goodsell
Donna is the director of Goodsells Family Law, a boutique family law practice established in Clapham in 2009. She has over 25 years' experience as a family law solicitor.
Donna sits on the Resolution Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Dispute Resolution committees.
She is a Resolution-accredited specialist in complex financial disputes and children law.
Shazia Khan
Shazia is a recognised leader by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 in the field of employment law.
She has over 20 years' experience, having dedicated her legal career to fighting for employee rights and litigating discrimination claims.
Having worked at a medium-sized and a Top 20 national firm at partner level, Shazia co-founded Cole Khan Solicitors LLP in May 2021, a boutique firm specialising in employment law and professional discipline.
The firm established itself as a key player in the employee and senior executive market, and featured in the Times Best Law Firms 2023.
John Moreland
John has a multi-disciplinary contentious practice at a Legal 500 high street firm in Kent.
His practice largely consists of publicly funded work, with a particular emphasis on criminal defence.
John is a firm believer in the high street law firm model, and is passionate about promoting access to justice for people on low and medium incomes.
Nick Woolf
Nick is the director of Nicholas Woolf & Co, a niche international commercial and family law practice formed in 2011, specialising in shareholder, director, partnership and estate disputes.
Nick has over 40 years' experience in small firms or as a sole practitioner.
He is a member of Resolution, Proceeds of Crime Lawyers' Association (POCLA), Professional Negligence Lawyers Association (PNLA) and on the executive of the Sole Practitioners Group (SPG).
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