Sean Stuttaford

Chief Operating Officer

+44 (0)1206 574431

sean.stuttaford@tsplegal.com

Sean Stuttaford joined TSP in 2001 as an IT specialist, in 2003 became Operations Director and was appointed as Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.) at the beginning of 2010. As C.O.O. Sean gets involved on a daily basis with the management of the practice, including strategy, performance and change management, marketing and business development and budget planning.

Before moving into the legal sector in 1998 Sean, who is local to the area, spent much of his early career working with technology within the Home Office and Civil Service. He also worked for a charity placing young adults into work placements and spent time as a lecturer for City College Norwich. Sean has an MBA in Legal Practice Management, which he passed with flying colours in 2013. In his spare time Sean is a very keen golfer and also enjoys watching motorsport.

Sean is anticipating an exciting time of change within the legal profession and in particular at TSP. Sean says “A changing legal market and client expectations are always pushing us to reach greater heights of legal expertise and service. The firm has grown in size and reputation over the past 5 years but we have worked hard to retain the values and the personnel that make TSP special. We are looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that will be presented over the next 5 years.”

Sean is a regular columnist for LPM (Legal Practice Management) Magazine. He has written a series of articles as follows:

Sept 2017: Changes of Pace: An article on the considerations of change management in Professional Service Firms (PSF), common problems and some methods to address them (page 15). You can read it here.

April / May 2017: Know Your Market: Strategic change and the external context – A brief article on the importance of knowing the marketplace your business operates within and the analysis of internal resources and capabilities (page 15). You can read it here.

Nov 2016: Become a Culture Vulture: A brief article on strategic change; the analysis methods and benefits of considering your firm’s culture before strategic planning and implementation takes place (page 10). You can read it here. 

Sean manages the TSP Support Services team.