Alistair 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 went to Number One on the Amazon business book chart.

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.

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.

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 is also recognised as a Leading Firm by the Legal500 and won the Boutique Law Firm of the Year at the Modern Law Awards in 2023.

Grant Sanders is 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.

Isabel is accredited as a senior litigator with APIL, as a high court advocate, and was one of the 14 solicitors representing the bereaved families on the Grenfell Civil Claims and has also represented many claimants in several top news cases globally.

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 organisations about navigating the extraordinary changes transforming the legal world. 

Based in Ottawa, Canada, Jordan is a renowned keynote speaker and a widely read thought leader on the future of the legal profession.

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 devastation and harm to the 3 ‘stakeholders’- the firm, the staff and the firm’s clients, and that her role as a defence lawyer gave her an insight into the root cause of those claims, but did not enable her to prevent them recurring. In 2020 (but pre-covid) she set up Karen Eckstein Ltd, to focus on the prevention of claims, to use her expertise and experience to help firms have healthier, happier and long lived relationships with their clients, and be more profitable as a result.

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 contracts, including Partnership and LLP Agreements. This was briefly interrupted by a year in house as the General Counsel to a medical start up which failed. He is currently Head of Corporate and Commercial at Anthony Gold.

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 volunteer and LawCare Champion, he regularly writes and speaks about his own experiences of mental illness. Pete is also host of the LawNet podcast.

Peter Ambrose 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.

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 leadership in law firms large and small.

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 goals and the peace of mind that comes with developing a successful law practice.