Our Leadership Team

As founder and Chief Executive Officer, I’m responsible for the overall vision of Inspire Legal Group alongside my dedicated Board. I’ve a proven track record of growth and success in legal practice which I’m intent on replicating and to date, Inspire Legal Group is set to scale and build on its success.

I’m passionate about leading forward-thinking legal professionals towards the future of legal practices. With over 20 years’ experience in finance, my expertise in anti-financial crime and regulatory compliance for source funds in property transactions has set me apart as a leader to implement new and evolving strategies to shape the future of the legal sector.

Digital

In 2020 in the first week of the pandemic, I launched Inspire Legal Group, incorporating Inspire Crypto and Inspire Legal Academy. As a digital and environmental, social and governance focused firm our mission is to modernise and digitise the legal sector by enabling and educating the industry to work smarter, not harder, with a network of specialisms including tech, training and business.

I’m also on the management team of Vleppo UK, a joint venture between Vleppo and Inspire Legal Group, to deliver blockchain business solutions to UK enterprises.

I’ve embedded pioneering virtual practices and secure online execution which modernise the legal sector and make lives easier for both our clients and legal consultants. I’m working closely with industry regulators, tech specialists and pioneering lawyers to enable WEB3 product development which is essential to reinvent stagnant processes in the legal sector.

I have a passion for anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing. I’m a self-confessed cryptocurrency, digital asset and NFT (non-fungible token) geek, so well placed to disrupt the sector.
Connected

My mission is to support the legal industry and its practitioners through progressive change, as the legal sector is notoriously behind other professions when it comes to digital innovation. Inspire Legal Group has the power to source and collaborate with the right partners, supporting lawyers with a successful remote business as a consultant under our firm model.

We’re a movement and in 2020 I founded #jointhemovement. I’m dedicated to supporting game changing lawyers forging their own path in an ever changing and evolving legal industry. My ambition is to continue to grow a support network of lawyers across the UK who value themselves, their time, their knowledge and believe they can be more successful than if they were ‘heading for that partnership role’.

Accessible

Distance and time are no longer obstacles! The pioneering technology that I championed and embedded into Inspire Legal Group, enables our lawyers to communicate directly through our client portal with their clients with ease and efficiency. Clients can even complete their property transactions on their smartphones

Making lives easier

As a forward-thinking law firm, I’m focussed on delivering digital processes and modern systems to reduce time and costs to our clients.

I’m also focussed on making lives easier for innovative lawyers who want to run their own business without the burden of their practice, insurance and compliance tasks.

I’m best known for being a medical negligence lawyer with over 25 years’ experience and I’m highly regarded in this field. I was the Lead Solicitor on two of the largest Group Actions against the NHS.

In 2013, following the successful growth and subsequent sale of my personal injury and medical negligence law firm Goodmans Law to Slater and Gordon Lawyers, I took on a senior leadership role with the firm. In 2017, I joined Simpson Millar, where I oversaw significant financial and staffing growth, helping to create and manage a £40m+ law firm.

I’ve been recognised for my work by the leading legal directories, with Legal 500 describing me as a ‘leading individual’ who ‘cares greatly, makes a real difference to the cases he is involved in and has the guts and drive to make things happen’. Chambers & Partners ranked me as Band 1 and said that I’m ‘an influential medical negligence lawyer, who is prominent in the industry’.

Digital

In 2022, with my proven track record and drive to facilitate commercially successful operational change I set up The Cohen Consultancy Ltd. Using my extensive knowledge and experience as a strategic thinker and leader, I help law firms that specialise in medical negligence and serious personal injury, as well as their supply chain by combining legal expertise with business acumen.

I became Executive Director on the Board of the Inspire Legal Group in 2022. The ambition of the firm to modernise and digitise the legal sector mirrored my own mission to help law firms operate more efficiently and effectively through modern technology.
Connected

Supporting the legal industry through radical change, means collaborating with the right people and partners to support lawyers as consultants under our firm model. I’m an experienced leader, with strong communication, marketing and data analysis skills. I’m experienced in key relationship management, including investor relations. I have experience in merger and acquisitions (M&A) both buying and selling law firms, as well as WIP book purchases.

Accessible

I’m regularly asked to share my knowledge speaking at industry events and have often appeared in the media. I also provide training, mentoring and coaching, this is part of the ethos of Inspire Legal Group.

Making lives easier

I’ve always been a keen advocate of mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, and working amicably and constructively with defendants to settle claims. The work we do at Inspire Legal Group to modernise and advance the legal sector will make this possible for so many more people.

Bill has been instrumental in the creation and innovation of litigation finance for decades. Since helping launch Themis Capital in 1999 and subsequently founding Amicus Capital Bill has personally originated or participated in over a billion in attorney loans, structures, and bespoke litigation finance deals.

In early 2007, he launched the first full-service financial services company that caters exclusively to trial-focused law firms. Shortly thereafter Bill introduced “Law Firm CFO Services”, a resource that provides business guidance to select law firms throughout the country. Continuing his multi-decade devotion to trial law firm’s success and bottom line in 2017 Bill founded the Legal Venture Fund to bring multi-decade legal operations experience to the LegalTech space combined with early-stage investment capital.

Mr. Tilley counts many of the most successful attorneys in the country as personal friends and has developed a network of thousands of invaluable industry contacts which enables him to facilitate productive partnerships as well as multi-firm collaborations.