"stars of their profession" - Legal 500, 2010

Kim Archer

Kim Archer joined Peters & Peters in 2011 after six years as Chief Executive of Bloomsbury law firm Bishop & Sewell, where she also qualified as a solicitor in 2007. Kim has diverse management experience over the last twenty years across commercial, charitable and public sector health care organisations. Areas of focus and achievement include significant strategic and operational successes at local and national levels, business modeling and redesign, and effective change management.

Chief Executive

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Roles within the UK and America have ranged from clinical to head of business units at director level and chief executive positions, as well as project work in India and Africa.

Key areas of interest in a period of significant change in the legal market include developing relevant corporate governance frameworks; embedding principles of the new regulatory framework; building strategic alliances to further support growth and competitive advantage; and a focus on meeting current and future client needs, using evolving technologies in communications, business process and service development.

Education /Qualifications

Education includes undergraduate degrees or qualifications in science and nursing (USA); Midwifery (UK); BA Public Sector/Economics; NHS General Management Training Scheme; MBA (London Business School); and Post Graduate Diploma in Law.

Membership / Current positions 

-Member of the International Committee of The City of Westminster & Holborn Law Society

-President of the City of Westminster & Holborn Law Society (Director)

-Member of the Association of Women Solicitors

-Director of Colombia Caravana Ltd, Colombia Caravana UK Lawyers Group (international network supporting human rights defenders in Colombia)

-Member (past Chair) of the advisory group for Network MP

-Member of the Executive Committee of Managing Partner Forum

-Vice President of Phylllis Tuckwell Hospice (independent charity)

Kim Archer