Legal Support Services specialises in professional training and consultancy for solicitors, accountants and financial advisers, on all aspects of advising the Older Client.

The organisation was founded by Tish Hanifan.

Tish was called to the Bar at Grays Inn in 1984.
She has over 20 years. experience in the field of the older client and is a leading authority in this field, lecturing, training, consulting and writing extensively on all aspects of working with older clients.
Tish trains, lectures and consults throughout the UK to professionals from many of the leading financial institutions, accountancy and solicitors firms and specialist groups.

She is also actively involved in working with the financial services sector to ensure best practice in advising the Older Client. She has sat on both the Financial Services Authority working party and the Financial Skills Council steering group considering regulation of Long Term Care Insurance.
She helped to produce both the Appropriate Exam Standards and the Appropriate Advice standard for LTC (National Occupational Standards)

She has also been a member of the Financial Services Skills Council working parties on both Generic Financial Advice and setting Appropriate Exam Standards for both Home Reversion Plans and Equity Release

Tish is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and sits on their Kent Committee.

She is a founder member and Board Director of Solicitors for the Elderly and is their Regional Co-ordinator for Kent where she lives.

In January 2009 Tish became Jt Chair of the Society of Later Life Advisers [SOLLA]

SOLLA was founded in 2008 as a not for profit organisation, to meet the need of consumers, advisers and those who provide financial products and services to the Later Life market

Tish is the author of .Equity Release Made Easy. published by Age Concern