Stewart McCulloch is head of business development at Nuvalaw. He is a solicitor who spent 25 years as a partner in a large North West of England law firm dealing with claims work, mainly in the field of bodily injury. During that period, he assisted insurers and other organisations in setting up settlement protocols with the specific aim of avoiding expensive litigation. He also worked with local courts to establish new rules designed to streamline process and reduce cost and worked with government departments in establishing cost-effective processes to support publicly funded work.