Richard Miller qualified as a solicitor in 1992 and worked for 8 years in a small high street legal aid firm in Kent. In 2000, he became the first full time director of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, where he was responsible for preparing the Group’s policy responses to a whole host of Government consultations on changes to the legal aid system. In August 2007, he became Head of Legal Aid at the Law Society. In 2016 he became Head of Justice. He is leading the Society’s work in relation to criminal legal aid, the workstreams arising from the review of civil legal aid, and engagement with the HMCTS court reform programme as well as overseeing work on civil justice, pro bono, advocacy and judicial diversity. He is part of the team that has developed the Law Society’s Proposals for a 21st Century Justice System.