Bernadette Summers

Managing Partner, John Welch & Stammers

ABS diary | lender panels, online details, MySRA

Her firm converted to ABS three months ago but the ?system has still not caught up with the new structure, ?says Bernadette Summers

ABS diary | Supervisors, accounts and lender panels

As her firm continues its ABS journey, Bernadette Summers explores the benefits of sharing ideas, has a surprise visit from her SRA supervisor and faces a setback with lender panel membership renewal

ABS diary | Taking the first steps

John Welch & Stammers was the first small firm to be authorised as an alternative business structure. In the first post of her new blog for Solicitors Journal, new managing partner Bernadette Summers walks us through the first days as an ABS

Applying to become an alternative business structure

Three-partner firm John Welch & Stammers was one of the first three organisations to be licensed as an alternative business structure by the SRA last month. New non-lawyer managing partner Bernadette Summers gives her account of the application process

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