Crispin is an experienced adviser to a range of global investors, legal businesses, law firms and start-ups across the US and UK.
He has worked in public policy and as a regulator, engaging with and talking about the profession and legal market with a huge range of law firms, legal businesses and investors, as well as regulators and academics across the globe.
Until the end of 2018 Crispin led the reform programme at the SRA, delivering a liberalised and better regulated legal market. The core part of those reforms, the new SRA Regulations & Standards were introduced in November 2019, offering new ways for regulated, unregulated and individual solicitors to practise. He was also responsible for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, now being sat by candidates. Legal business should be thinking about their workforce strategy now so as to take advantage of the opportunities. Crispin have been at the forefront of regulatory reform and the changing legal market for more than 15 years.
Crispin is also an experienced non-executive. He served many years on the Boards of the General Dental Council and Citizen Housing, stepping down from both in 2021 to focus on his rapidly growing consultancy. He Chaired the Audit & Risk Committee of both of these organisations - one a national health regulator and the other a provider of over 30,000 social homes, with a multi-million investment programme. Crispin provides non-exec style and Board adviser support to start-ups.
He has been a member of the Expert Panel to the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid in England & Wales, appointed by the Lord Chancellor.
As well as assisting Arizona and Utah with regulatory reform programs he was appointed to the California State Bar's Closing the justice gap working group to bring experience and expertise of regulatory reform and the impact on the legal market.
Crispin is also a Faculty Adviser to the Digital Legal Exchange. DLEX is a global institute of leading thinkers and doers from academia, business, government, technology and law, committed to accelerating digital transformation in the legal market.
Crispin’s deep domain knowledge has been garnered over 30 years in the legal sector since obtaining a first-class degree at Warwick University.
