Richard Moorhead is a Research Fellow at
the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He is qualified as a
Solicitor and is the current Chair of the Young Solicitors Group of England and
Wales.He researches in the fields of the legal profession,
legal education and the regulation of legal services and is currently conducting research
for the Legal Aid Board on block contracting (with Sherr, Paterson and others), the Office
for the Supervision of Solicitors on complaints handling procedures (with Sherr and
Rogers), and the Lord Chancellors Department on Human Rights and the Access to
Justice Bill (with Clare Brown) and on Community Legal Service Partnerships.
He has published on legal aid (most recently Legal Aid in the Eye of
a Storm - Rationing, contracting and a new institutionalism, (1998) 25 Journal of Law and
Society 365-387), measuring professional competence and solicitors training. These
include, Tormentoring Trainees: traineeships in large private practice firms (Law Society,
1997) and Quality of Life and Trainee Solicitors: a Survey (1995) International Journal of
the Legal Profession, Volume 2, 2/3 as well as work on Legal Aid Franchising conducted
with Professors Alan Paterson and Avrom Sherr.
He is an editorial advisory board member of The International
Journal of the Legal Profession and Amicus Curiae: the Journal of the Society of Advanced
Legal Studies.