Michael Leeman

Solicitor - Managing Partner

SRA ID: 168553

Mike is a specialist criminal defence solicitor with over 25 years experience in this field. Mike attended Calday Grange Grammar school on the Wirral and then studied at Sheffield Hallam University followed by the University of Sheffield. Whilst studying for his law degree Mike started working in the criminal department at Bell Lamb & Joynson in the summer of 1994 under the tutelage of George Sale one of the areas most prominent and respected criminal defence solicitors. Mike started a training contract with the firm in 1996 qualifying as a solicitor in 1998. In 2001 Mike became a partner in the firm and subsequently the head of the criminal department. Mike is now the firms managing partner and the firms COLP. BLJ has one of the longest established criminal law departments in the area and are incredibly well respected in this field and are in the top 20% of providers by volume of Legal Aid cases in England and Wales. As head of the department, Mike runs a team of exceptionally talented and dedicated criminal defence solicitors, with over 200 years post qualification experience between them who can provide representation whatever the allegation across our office network in Merseyside and North Cheshire, and regularly on a national basis, 24 hours a day 365 days of the year.