Law firm appoints inaugural COO

arch.law has welcomed Jonathan Patterson as its inaugural chief operating officer.

He joins from DWF Group plc where he has worked for the last nine years in a number of roles including managing director of innovation and ventures. Prior to DWF, Patterson was head of business development at Addleshaw Goddard.

Founded in 2021, arch.law now has more than 80 members and nine hubs across the UK in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London together with Australia and Canada and has quickly become a key player in the fast-changing legal market place.

Patterson specialises in the business side of law with particular expertise in strategy, innovation and management. He has a track record of providing strategic advice and business support to teams to help them grow standalone new products, solutions and businesses both organically and via acquisition. Jonathan will harness this strategic expertise enabling arch.law Members to scale and build their businesses within its distributed model.

arch.law founder and CEO Andrew Leaitherland said: “Building our strategic leadership team has been a priority as we’ve increased our Member and geographic base. Having someone of Jonathan’s calibre join arch.law will enable us to push ahead with our strategic goals, including increasing our footprint and international capabilities to meet our rapidly expanding client base.”

Patterson added: “My priority will be to implement the business strategy focusing on creating and scaling legal solutions for clients and Members. Creating a best in class experience whilst supporting Members to build their businesses is the perfect role for me. I’m looking forward to working again with Andrew and the arch.law team too.”

The firm has a base at 55 Colmore Row in Birmingham.