Peter Duru is our management and compliance consultant at Deo Volente. He has advanced postgraduate qualifications (all with distinction) in both Law and Business Management and previously worked as a senior manager at the Legal Services Commission (now the Legal Aid Agency) first as the London Regional Civil Contracts Manager in charge of the entire Civil Legal aid budget for the whole of London and later as the London Regional Criminal Defence Services Manager in charge of the entire criminal defence budget for London and all criminal Legal aid contracts in London. He was also responsible for running the entire auditing and compliance operation of the LAA’s London Region which involved auditing the compliance of well over 1000 legal aid funded law firms every year. Peter left the Legal Aid Agency in 2003 to set up Duru Management Consultancy Ltd and has worked in compliance ever since.