I've spent 10 years as a barrister in litigation, 16 years in mediation rooms and 6 years advising barristers, senior lawyers...

Two barristers. Two senior lawyers.

Similar experience.
Similar legal expertise.
Similar quality of work.

Only one is the perso...

Nobody gives you a leadership degree.

You're expected to know how to lead because you're good at your work.

The problem is, tec...

"They're just not performing."

Every senior lawyer will say this about someone on their team at some point.

And when they do, t...

Everyone wants high-performing teams.

Very few are high-performing leaders who know how to lead them.

I spent years studying le...

You got the leadership title. 
Nobody told you that's not what makes people trust you.

Legal expertise got you promoted (or you...

I was the mediator in a mediation that collapsed after 1.5 hours.

And before you assume, no, it wasn't because I'm a bad media...

The question that changed how I work.

A client once looked at me across the mediation table and said:
"Why am I only hearing th...

The assumption is that legal expertise, combined with AI capability, identifies top performers.

That's a mistake.

Clients don't...

Everyone is talking about how AI will change legal practice.

It will.

Repetitive and legal work will get done faster.

Informatio...