Areas of Expertise

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  • Strategy and policy writing including a full development process including co-production and consultation

  • Developing and / or undertaking development of a co-production policy and process

  • A full organisational review to ensure legal compliance and best practice regarding Equality and Diversity

  • Training including visual impairment awareness, effective chairing, equalities and diversity, effective governance

  • Policy and processes for enabling people with lived experience / expertise to represent themselves and be fully integrated in to governance and decision-making processes

Empowering Disabled People

Since he acquired his impairment in 1978, Alun has had an  overwhelming belief in Disabled people and any other group who experience disadvantage being able to speak for and represent themselves and for their voices to be part of decision-making at every level. He has put this belief in to practise in his personal and professional life. This has included setting up a number of groups and forums where people with lived expertise have been in control, setting up formal processes for people with lived expertise to engage with public bodies, and representing the voices of people with lived expertise on local and central government and health bodies.

Strategic Expertise

Alun has many years of experience of not just writing strategies and policies, but leading and undertaking the whole development process from inception, engagement, writing and approval. He has done this in both the public and community and voluntary sectors. A fundamental driver is for everything to be concise, clear and accessible.

Effective Policy Maker

Alun has extensive experience of being an active participant in governance structures. This has included at a national level on the Healthwatch England committee and a member of the management committee of the British council of Disabled people. At a local level he has been a trustee / management committee member of several community and voluntary sector organisations working with older people, Disabled children and young people and housing issues. In all of these roles he has played an active part in ensuring the organisation has robust and effective policies and measure to be accountable, financially viable, operationally effective and transparent.

Collaborative Equality

As a local government officer, councillor and community activist, Alun has set up and supported groups and structures with partnership working and collaboration at their heart. These have included Health and Wellbeing boards, a group to advise a bus company on improving their services for people with a visual impairment, and Equality and diversity forums. At the heart of Alun’s approach is an understanding that partnership working only works effectively if everyone buys in to what is needed and to do  sees that there is something for them to gain for the process. Above all, people need to recognise they are all there for the same reason: to bring about positive change.

Disability Equality Trainer

Alun has been a trainer since 1986. The bulk of this training has been Disability Equality Training. He has trained a  very wide range of organisations and individuals from the community, private and public sectors. Recently he has delivered visual impairment awareness training. His years of training have taught him to recognise whatever the seriousness of the subject it needs to be taught in a friendly open, non-confrontational way. The best way to get people to change their behaviour is to make them laugh not shout at them.

Chairing Meetings

Chairing meeting Alun believes from extensive experience is a real skill that takes many years to develop. In our Bureaucratic meetings-based decision-making governmental structures being able to chair a meeting that makes decisions in a  reasonable timescale with everyone feeling they have had their chance to contribute is vital. Alun has chaired meetings at a national and local level and has learnt from very good chairs what works and what does not. He is able and willing to come in and chair an organisation to help get it through a  period of time

Television, Film & Theater

The way people consume entertainment is constantly in flux, so the laws must adapt quickly. Harris Ingram strives to anticipate these changes so you can focus more on creating a performance of a lifetime. Among our clients are actors, directors, unions, agencies, writers, animators, and many other industry talents. We draft and negotiate development, production, financing, and sales & distribution agreements. Tailoring each contract according to a project’s scope, size, and budget, we secure the appropriate creative rights for all talents involved.

Fashion, Apparel & Textile Law

Fashion law is a little bit like the Wild West. There’s a lot of potential, but the rules can be convoluted and vague at best. Protecting a brand or even a single design involves intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, and patents. A successful case requires creativity and flexibility. Harris Ingram represents boutique design houses like Marta and Thorne, individual designers like Mara Bond, and illustrators and graphic designers. We protect their products against copycats large and small, and guide them through manufacturing ethics and labeling laws.

Intellectual Property

Ideas, tangible or not, are the most important things to protect in today’s competitive creative market. With so many channels and constantly replenishing feeds to watch out for, tracing the ownership and originality of a design, brand name, or invention needs the laser-focused eye of a trained attorney. We’ll handle the search, application, and filing process of trademarks, copyrights, and patents. And if your idea has been infringed upon, our litigation team will negotiate the best possible licensing and settlement agreements.

Art Litigation

Demystifying art law is in itself a creative practice. It requires finesse, strategic structuring, and, in many ways, empathy. At the end of the day, art and its worth is profoundly personal. In such matters, mediation or arbitration almost always yields the most fulfilling results. However, should the occasion arise, our lawyers are more than prepared to move into litigation. From artists, agents, dealers, galleries, museums, and auction houses, our clients have always walked away from their disputes or deals knowing that their core interests were preserved.

Digital Media & Technology

The internet, software, and technology are so pervasive that we can’t remember having ever lived without them. They make our lives simpler, but behind the curtain are fluctuating challenges in protection and monetization; challenges that our firm stays two steps ahead of. We’ve helped engineers, inventors, gaming startups, and entrepreneurs develop, license, sell, and maintain ownership over their creations. We’ve also negotiated purchasing and partnership agreements for larger investment companies looking for their unicorn.

Liability & Risk

Whether you run a theater, recording studio, or an eCommerce website, all businesses need to minimize their legal liability and risk. Our lawyers will assess the structure of your operation, such as its physical or digital space, the types of products you sell, who your consumers are, what type of company you have filed under (LLC, Inc, etc.), and so on. From there, we will tailor the right risk plan, complete with permit applications, insurance policies, and more, so you can worry less about liabilities and concentrate on growing your business.