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Every law firm founder I coach eventually asks me some version of the same question: what's actually holding the firm back? They assume the answer lives in a process gap, a hiring mistake, or a strategy that needs sharpening. Sometimes it does. But in the vast majority of cases, tactics and systems account for maybe 20% of what separates a firm that's stuck from a firm that's compounding.

Another success for PCB Byrne LLP. Nick Ractliff and Yana Ahlden acted for the Chabra Respondents based in Spain in seeking to have a worldwide freezing order obtained against them discharged on jurisdictional grounds in Gibert v Broadoak Private Finance Limited [2026] EWHC 153 (KB).

Exclusive new data from GCs at the world’s top tech companies has revealed the most important factors governing their choice of external counsel – as well as highlighting the firms most effectively delivering on their demands.

Legal AI tools have moved from novelty to necessity. Firms have signed contracts, run pilots, and rolled out generative AI assistants with significant budget behind them. Yet when leadership asks the inevitable question, “what’s the return?”, the answers get murky fast.

You've built a seven-figure law firm. You've survived the grind, developed the talent, refined the strategy. By most measures, you've won. And yet something is off. Growth has stalled. The same problems keep surfacing. The same decisions keep getting deferred. You keep doing more, and the needle barely moves.

When asked to collaborate on an article for The Law Society Gazette on why women leave law, I jumped at the chance to participate. This is an issue I've commented on for years, gleaning observations...

This week (9 to 15 February) is National Apprenticeship Week; a week-long celebration hosted by the UK Government...

Revenue may still be climbing year over year. The firm looks good on paper. From the outside, it appears to be working exactly as it should.