The Law Firm Owners Podcast

Éamon is co-owner of Briffa, a boutique IP practice with offices in London and Dublin. He is interested in soft IP (especially trademarks, copyright, and design rights), data protection, information technology, and commercial law. Éamon advises a broad range of businesses in IP rich sectors, from fashion to technology. The Legal500 and the World Intellectual Property Review recommend him. Briffa i...

Steve is a driven, focused, and passionate about helping law firm owners and partners to reach their full potential. Steve Fretzin is regarded as the premier coach, skills trainer, and roundtable facilitator on business development for law firm owners. Over the past 17 years, Steve Fretzin has devoted his career to helping lawyers master the art of business development to achieve their business go...

My next guest is Chris Bishop, Senior Partner, and a former equity owner of Slater Heelis, with roots tracing back over 250 years. It is a full-service firm with offices in Manchester city centre, Sale, and has over 210 employees. About Dan: Dan provides law firm owners with the skills and capital investment to increase their profits while reducing their workload. Over the last five years, Dan’s c...

Peter owns The Partnership, an award-winning property law firm he founded 15 years ago, based in London and Guildford and employing 90 people.  With his new firm, Legalito, he is sharing with other lawyers the benefits of technology that genuinely improves effectiveness. In this episode Peter breaks down how efficiency and outstanding service is the key to charging good fees, reducing risk and mai...

In this episode, Chrissie will take us through the three secrets that law firm owners can implement to attract, develop and retain high-performance talent. Chrissie Wolfe is a partner at Nexa who specialises in medical and cosmetics injuries and also has a consulting business focused on supporting law firm firms and legal teams in the attraction and retention of talent. Chrissis also has an online...

In this episode Karen takes us through the 3 mistakes that law firms make that can destroy their business, and cause them to lose fees, or cost them income and how to avoid them. Karen has over 30 years’ experience of defending claims against professionals, primarily solicitors, accountants and tax advisors. She became frustrated by the fact that professional negligence claims caused significant d...

Rob started his first firm shortly after he qualified when he was 28 and, as one of his then partners commented, they “had all the confidence of ignorance”. In 2006, Rob set up the first iteration of the Atkins Dellow business with Graham Atkins, his very good friend from law school. They operated under the umbrella of Atkins , with Graham offering boutique media and libel services and Rob focusin...

In this episode, we discuss how Alex focused on building a great culture across his firm to scale effectively and profitably past the £5M turnover mark. In this session, we will explore leadership skills in depth and explain why they are so important for any law firm owner looking to build a truly profitable and thriving firm. Any entrepreneurial lawyers and law firm leaders can reach out directly...

Hosted on this episode is Grant Sanders , the head of Legal Operations at Stephen Rimmer Solicitors. He has a passion for turning law practice into a well-oiled machine – whilst meeting today’s demanding compliance regulations. In this episode, Grant broke down how effective it is to partner with consultants and other small law firm service providers to boost efficiency and a way that increase pro...

My next guest is Rhiannon Cambrook-Woods, a Partner and business owner with a history of building and managing law firms over the past 20+ years. Recent personal accolades include success at the Court of Appeal in defamation and a £1.3m recovery against a well-known TV personality. Rhiannon is a Solicitor specialising in litigation, financial disputes and defamation at the Court of Appeal if pushe...

My guest today, is Paul Khan, Owner at Redholm Consulting , based in sunny Brisbane, Australia - a veteran and pioneer of support and advisory services to law firms. In his 40-year international career he has been a banker, statistician in pharmaceutical consultancy, a magic circle and big 4 growth specialist, and C Suite (including CEO) of a number of accounting and law firms in the UK and Oz. Ha...

Patrick has spent over 30 years working as a “generalist” company commercial lawyer (both as an assistant and for the last 20 odd years as a partner in four firms in three of which he was Head of Department), primarily dealing with acquisitions and sales of companies and businesses, implementing corporate reorganisations usually for tax planning purposes and dealing with various commercial contrac...