Law firm Walker Morris has appointed the former Deloitte managing partner, Stuart Counsell, as its first non-executive board director.

Stuart spent over 30 years at Deloitte, during which time he held a variety of senior management positions including managing partner of the 17 UK Regional offices and latterly managing partner finance and legal.

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During his tenure as Deloitte’s managing partner finance and legal, he was responsible for the financial and legal aspects of a £2 billion professional services business. He was also heavily involved in the firm’s continuous systems improvement and acquisition programmes.

Stuart’s appointment is the latest in a series of initiatives which has seen the recruitment of a 22 lawyer strong property finance litigation team and the strengthening of its competition practice with the recruitment of a leading competition lawyer Trudy Feaster-Gee from Lloyds Bank.

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