Kieran is Head of Business Development and Training at True Solicitors LLP.
True Solicitors LLP, head quartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, advises clients on personal injury law, financial mis-selling, consumer law and conveyancing.
Kieran’s legal career spans over 30 years and started in 1983 when he took a position as an outdoor clerk at national law firm Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave.
Kieran joined national firm Russell Jones and Walker and later Leeds firm Ison Harrison in 1992. He was instrumental in establishing their Road Traffic Accident department which rapidly grew in size under his leadership. Whilst employed by the firm he decided to complement his vocational skills with formal qualifications; he studied and eventually passed the ILEX exams before embarking on the solicitor qualifications. He obtained the CPE and LPC qualifications by correspondence, the former from the De Montford University in Leicester in 2001, the latter from the College of Law in York in 2004. Kieran qualified as a solicitor in November 2004.
Kieran joined Gorman Hamilton Solicitors, now True Solicitors LLP, in 2000 to establish their Leeds office. He was appointed salaried partner in 2007.
From 2007 to 2018 he was a member of the Management Committee of the Motor Accident Solicitors’ Society (MASS) as Regional Co-ordinator for the Yorkshire region. Kieran was also the MASS representative for The Financial Conduct Authority Management Regulatory Consultative Group.