The Law Firm Owners Podcast

My next guest is, Mathew Kerbis, The famous Subscription Attorney. Mathew is on a mission to affordably serve clients at scale via the subscription model and inspire attorneys (or lawyers as we call them) to abandon the billable hour. Today, what we’re covering is how to use AI the right way, ditch the billable hour, and become a lawyer of the future. To find out more about Mathew or get in contac...

On today's episode, I have the honour of hosting two super switched-on men! One is Dino Dullabh, the co-founder of Access Law Clinic and Law Training Centre, with over a decade of experience in advocating for choice in legal qualifications. He has worked with over 800 law firms, so there is very little that Dino and his team have not faced when helping a firm recruit new qualified professiona...

My guest today is Jon Gregson, a Partner at Weightmans, a UK national law firm. Jon is an employment lawyer within Weightmans' Employment, Pensions, and Immigration team, with over 20 years of experience in the law. Jon is also consistently ranked as one of the top Legal LinkedIn influencers from the UK's Top 200 law firms. Today, what we’re covering is the power of personal branding for...

My guest today is Juliet Schalker, who is the Head of Dispute Resolution and equity partner at Debenhams Ottaway, which is a full-service, top 200 law firm based in Hertfordshire. Today we’re looking at the Issues affecting regional firms based close to big cities and what law firms that aren’t based in any of the major UK cities can do to attract and retain top talent. You can find out more about...

My guest today is Senior Partner at Moore Barlow and Head of Major Trauma. In 2021, Trevor became the first black senior Partner of a top 100 UK law firm and is a social mobility champion and Founder of the Be The Ladder Awards and the Be the Ladder Foundation, which promotes social mobility, educational equality and community upliftment. Moore Barlow was established in 2020 following a merger bet...

My next guest is Jonathan Watmough . He was an M&A partner in the City at 30 and managing partner at 38. Over the next ten years, the firm won Law Firm of the Year three times, The Managing Partners' Forum's strategic leadership award and he was personally named twice in the Top 100 lawyers in the UK. He is now an adviser, coach, speaker and author who helps law firm partners and par...

My guest today is Paul O’Halloran, an employment law partner and Head of Office in Melbourne at Dentons, the largest law firm in the world. He has a strong focus on resolving high-risk disputes in the workplace for employers Which frequently involves employee misconduct, union disputation, governance and workplace culture, industrial action, vulnerable stakeholders, media interest and reputational...

My next guest is Carla Hoppe, the Founder of Wealthbrite which is a company on a mission to create a generation of financially savvy professionals. After a career in finance, Carla founded Wealthbrite to help professionals build confidence with money and make smarter, informed choices. Through her workshops and strategic programmes, she supports high-performing firms to embed financial literacy in...

Simon Tupman is the author of The Heart of Practice: Leadership Principles for Legal Professionals. He is also a brilliant speaker and has been a mentor to law firms and legal professionals for over thirty years. Having started his career as a practising solicitor in London, he moved into the business of law and moved to New Zealand in the early ‘90s. Simon now specialises in helping develop leade...

Jordan Furlong is the principal at Law21 and provides keynote presentations to law firm retreats and other firm events. Jordan Furlong is a legal sector analyst, consultant, and forecaster who advises law firms and legal organizations about navigating the extraordinary changes transforming the legal world. Based in Ottawa, Canada, Jordan is a renowned keynote speaker and a widely read thought lead...

In this episode, I got to speak to Isabel Bathurst, the CEO and owner of a Consultancy firm called IB Consulting. She is also a solicitor under the umbrella of Scott Moncrieff, where she practices and has her own cases with a team of lawyers carrying the weight for her. Her focus is on catastrophic injury cases and fatal accidents, including those with a foreign element. Isabel is accredited as a...

Pete has specialised in learning and professional development in the legal sector for over 20 years. He joined LawNet in 2013 and has significant experience of designing and implementing learning strategies that help firms grow and develop their teams and their future managers and leaders.  Pete is also very active in promoting the importance of mental health and wellbeing. As a Mind media volunte...

My guest is Alistair Marshall who has helped thousands of lawyers in over 200 firms worldwide, to win more new profitable client work. He is the founding director of Professional Services BD based in Sydney, Australia, but has worked with firms in Europe, North America and Asia. Alistair recently published a book ‘ How to grow your Professional Services Practice - The Practical Guide to BD’ which...

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...