Richard has retired from the legal profession where he practised as a barrister employed in the private sector (civil and criminal litigation & property law), as a Crown Prosecutor (criminal litigation and advocacy) and as a commercial property lawyer based at The Guildhall in the City of London.

 

Since 1998, he has been a Director of Touchworks Ltd, a company engaged in publishing, consultancy and the promotion and supply of complementary medicine training and services.He has acted as a Health & Social Care sector mediator, a lecturer in law delivering law courses at professional, higher and further education levels and as a New Enterprise Network and Start-up Loans Business Mentor, for which he holds full membership of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (MIoEE).

 

He is a mentor with the Passport to Success scheme managed by the University of Brighton and also a mentor to students of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX). Richard was a participant in the government funded Get Mentoring initiative that delivered mentoring to any type of micro, small and medium sized business. 

 

In addition to writing Owning a Business – Things you need to Know and his previous book Getting Ready to Start a Business, Richard has had published articles, discussion documents & research proposals relating to alternative dispute resolution, clinical practice management (complementary medicine), Human Rights and the professional training of legal practitioners. He was a participant in The Legal Education & Training Report 2013.