Jonathan McKeown

Education: Jonathan graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1995 with a Bachelors Degree in Aeronautical engineering before studying Business Administration and Law at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska.  Following this Jonathan graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Legal Science degree in 1999.  Jonathan qualified as a solicitor in 2001.

Position: Director
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DDI: 028 3025 7766

What were you working on before founding JMK?
I had been working in a practice in Antrim doing personal injury and road traffic accident claims.

Why did you decide to establish the practice?
I have an idea for how I want things to be done which is fairly unique and I felt the best way to achieve this was to be in control of my own destiny. This has proved difficult to achieve on my own but is is very rewarding having so many good people around me to keep things moving in the right direction.

What are you working on at the minute?
My primary objectives for 2011 are the expansion of our Belfast office, the recruitment and selection process that goes along with that is obviously important also and in addition the formulation of a marketing campaign to boost the profile of the practice and get our message across as to what services we provide. The legal market is very competitive which makes what we have achieved monumental. We have spent the last 12 months clarifying our vision for the future and we want to get out with it and to continue to shake up the industry we are in.

What is the key message you would want to get across?
I think its that we are genuinely interested in our client’s feedback, whether it is good or bad. I read once that you learn more from the things that go wrong than the things that go right and I would have to agree with this. I want to hear from clients, and indeed non-clients, about what they want from their legal representative. We may think we know what clients want, but unless we actually encourage them to interact with us and tell us how they want things done we can’t truly be client focussed the way we should be.