David Hutchins has been a solicitor since 1967. He was until 1998 the Senior Partner of Hutchins & Co, Solicitors, London, a firm he founded in 1971. He has been responsible for, inter alia, the selection and supervision of trainee solicitors. He is currently a Practising Consultant with the firm.  His legal experience includes conveyancing, wills, probate, landlord and tenant, commercial contracts, employment law, criminal law, family law, professional negligence, personal injury claims and general civil litigation. He has been a frequent Guest Speaker on 'English for Lawyers' courses and is also an experienced small-group presenter. He speaks and reads French and has a working knowledge of German, Italian, and Latin. He has translated "Le Petit Prince" for a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, broadcast Christmas 1999.


He holds a certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Since 2002, at the end of August each year, he has presented an intensive course for the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie of Berlin (www.anwaltakademie.de). See Client Testimonial or Kundenempfehlung. The DAA course in 2010 will be at St. Peter-Ording from the 23rd to the 27th August, 2010. 

He has given courses at, inter alia, DaimlerChrysler in Stuttgart, Deutsche BP AG in Bochum and Knorr-Bremse in Munich, and recently in Italy and Turkey. He has recently been appointed a QLTT (Qualified Lawyers' Transfer Test) Oral Test Assessor by Altior Consulting & Training Ltd (www.altior.co.uk/qltt) on behalf of the SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority): www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/qltt. His wide coverage of both contentious and non-contentious areas of practice, together with his training record and linguistic knowledge ensure a first-class course experience.