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Nolan Mortimer

Chief Operating Officer

How I support the business

As Chief Operating Officer, Nolan combines strategic leadership with operational expertise to support Adam Benedict's continued growth and help deliver operational excellence.

His experience includes building a travel law practice at a medium sized firm, from just himself to a team of 20, supporting thousands of clients along the way. He has also driven business change and digitisation projects in law firms, introducing better working practices and significant savings.

At Adam Benedict, Nolan brings that experience to developing the firm’s operations, supporting its teams and turning its ambitions into practical progress.

2002

Qualified as a solicitor into a niche travel law firm

2009

Partner in a mid-sized law firm running multiple legal teams

2014

Equity Partner scaling teams to revenue in excess of £2.5m

2019

Delivered firmwide digital transformation programme in top 100 law firm

2025

Delivered increased margin and revenue of £11m+ in regional branch of national law firm

  • "I recruited Nolan in November 2023 to lead and grow the travel team at Colemans-CTTS. He discharged that role with considerable success, showing a rare combination of technical excellence, business acumen and management ability, growing the team into a nationally recognised department. Following the acquisition of the Colemans business by Simpson Millar in 2015, he adopted a broader projects and operations based role which he continued to discharge with the same ability, improving and broadening his management skills in the process. I would not hesitate to recommend him to anyone."

    – Roger Coleman, Simpson Millar, LLP - Manchester

  • "Nolan is fantastic to work with because he is a natural problem solver, level-headed and has excellent judgement. Clients love him because he gives the right advice and delivers it with charm! Nolan is a great manager of people, he seems to find time to get so much done. I’m just sad that he doesn’t have so many cases anymore because he’s too good at management!"

    – Sarah, Crowther, Barrister at Outer Temple Chambers

    • Thompsons Solicitors: Regional Managing Partner (2023–2026)

    • Simpson Millar: Operations Partner (2019–2022); Head of Legal Processing (2017–2019); Head of Travel (2015–2017)

    • Colemans-ctts: Partner (2003–2015)

    • Andrea & Co (now Penningtons): Solicitor (2000–2003)

    • Have been listed in Chambers

    • Have been listed in Legal 500