We are a team of five consultants with complementing skills who work closely together to provide a seamless, cost effective service. Each member of the team has either worked for or provided services to some of the U.K.’s leading companies in the managerial, legal, retail and design sectors. This blend of expertise distinguishes us from our competitors and our size enables us to move more quickly than larger consultancies.

After graduating from Cardiff Business School, David first started his career as a Trainee Branch Manager for Abbey National. After being a Branch Manager, he left to become a Retail Financial Manager for Marks and Spencer and later joined the Legal Aid Board (now the Legal Services Commission). At the Legal Services Commission, David’s managerial roles have included Operations Manager and Franchise Contracts Manager. David left the Commission in 2000 to establish DG Legal.

After reading law at the University of London, Rina started her career at Lovells and then Allen & Overy before joining the world of legal aid. While working as a solicitor at AB Law, she also provided advice and assistance on the Joint Council of Welfare for Immigrants (JCWI) immigration and asylum helpline.
Rina is a non-practising solicitor who writes an accreditation assessment for Central Law Training and the Law Society in addition to providing a range of advice and services to legal organisations.

After reading law at King’s College London, Melanie was recruited by Herbert Smith as a trainee solicitor. After being admitted by the Law Society, she was retained by Herbert Smith as a solicitor in their litigation department. She was promoted to the level of senior solicitor at Herbert Smith and remained at their London office for seven years before joining DG Legal.
Melanie also provided pro-bono services to Tower Hamlets Business Education Partnership where she taught mathematics skills to schoolchildren.

Dale qualified as an aerospace engineer after leaving school. In 1996 he gained an upper second class degree and later was awarded a diploma in business management. He held the post of director of an I.T. company but at the same time Dale chose to return to the Open University as a lecturer to teach I.T. studies to undergraduates.

Dale provides friendly but expert cost effective computer consultancy, training, servicing and maintenance to small and medium sized organisations which do not have their own in-house I.T. department.

Kant has worked on many accounts ranging from sole practitioners to high profile blue chip companies such as Microsoft, HSBC, Barclays, Sterling Energy and 3i. Although his impressive C.V. would suggest the contrary, he is often more cost effective to instruct than a design agency. Kant specialises in producing eye-catching designs for identities, leaflets, brochures and websites.

We have a team based in Leicestershire which handles post and telephone calls. E-mails are usually replied to by our Consultant

To complement our team of consultants, we also work closely with a team of other professionals such as specialist solicitors and barristers which enables us to provide a seamless service. These include:

Nick Armstrong
Nick was admitted as a solicitor in 1998, whereupon he joined Irwin Mitchell’s Public Law Unit. In 2001 he transferred to the Bar and joined Tooks Chambers specialising in public law with a particular emphasis on immigration and asylum. He regularly appears before the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and the higher courts as well as acting in damages actions arising in the immigration context. He is the editor or co-editor of a number of publications, including the UK Human Rights Reports. Nick is now a member of Matrix Chambers.

Avtar Bhatoa of Bullivant & Partners
Avtar Bhatoa is a highly experienced Solicitor Advocate. He is Managing Partner of Bullivant & Partners, a specialist Crime Practice in the City of London. Bullivant & Partners provide advice and services from Police Station Advice and Assistance to Crown Court Advocacy.
 
Avtar is Vice Chairman of the Solicitors' Association of Higher Court Advocates and recently spoke at the 2005 Sweet and Maxwell Legal Aid Conference arguing the case against Price Competitive Tendering.

Greg Powell of Powell Spencer & Partners
Greg Powell is a highly regarded Crime Solicitor in the London Region. He is Managing Partner of Powell Spencer & Partners. This highly regarded firm of solicitors is active in advising clients from the local Kilburn community, as well as increasingly representing clients from across the whole of the UK. Murder cases and youth work are strong areas of focus. The firm also acted for a Guantanamo Bay detainee in 2004.
 
Greg is President of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association and is a past winner of the LAPG Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (Crime Category)

Samantha Little of Russell Cooke
Samanatha Little is a Partner at Russell Cooke. She specialises in cases concerning children including public law care cases; private law cases (eg contact and residence); adoption. Samantha is experienced in representing children of all ages (either on the instruction of the Children's Guardian or separately when competent), Children's Guardians, parents and other family members.
 
Samantha is a member of the Law Society Children Panel (since 1998;) the Solicitors' Family Law Association (currently Member of the Children Committee); the Association of Lawyers for Children;and the National Association of Guardians ad litem and Reporting Officers.

Jawaid Luqmani
Jawaid Luqmani is a partner in the niche firm Luqmani Thompson & partners.  Jawaid and the firm have been featured in Chambers & partners for the last 6 years, as leading  lawyers in the field with litigation ranging from cases within the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal through to the House of Lords. The firm have also had cases heard in the ECHR as well as the Court of Justice in Luxembourg 
 
He  has been a member of the Executive Committee of  ILPA for over 12 years for whom he has also provided training over a similar period. Jawaid has also provided training for the Refugee Legal Centre, Immigration Advisory Service, the London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association, as well as for individual community groups. He has been involved in lobbying both in the domestic parliament as well as the European Parliament and continues to co-author regular updates to immigration law through the "Recent developments" columns in the Legal Action Group bulletin.
 
Jawaid is presently an assessor for CLT in connection with the Law Society/LSC accreditation scheme.He was approached by the legal Services Commission in 2002 to work as a peer reviewer and in the same year was appointed to the Advisory Body of the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner.

Michael Hanley
Michael Hanley graduated from Cambridge University in law and was admitted as a solicitor in 1985. He commenced his career as a civil litigator but since 1994 has specialised exclusively in all aspects of immigration, nationality and asylum law. He has been a partner since 1990.
Michael has been ranked as a leading individual in immigration in the Chambers Legal Directory for a number of years. He is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association. He taught the Immigration Legal Practice Course at Metropolitan London University for 4 years between 2001 and 2004. He has had the conduct of cutting edge cases in the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal, and was shortlisted for the Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award in 2001. He now has a mixed practice of Legal Aid and private clients, and has considerable experience in business immigration and work permit applications. He is a Legal Services Commission peer reviewer for immigration and asylum work, and a consultant to the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner.

Alison Leivesley of TV Edwards
Alison is an associate solicitor at TV Edwards specialising in domestic violence and private law children cases. She has eight years experience of Family law and is a member of the Law Society's Advanced Family Law Panel; Resolution and the Association of Lawyers for children.

Alison is Vice Chairwoman of Tower Hamlets Women's Aid and is a Steering Group member of NCH Children's Fund Project.