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.

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 into their culture, turning learning and development into a commercial advantage.

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.

Jon Gregson is a Partner at UK national law firm Weightmans, with over 20 years’ experience in employment law and a standout presence on LinkedIn, where he’s become one of the most recognised voices from the UK200 legal firms. 

Known for blending legal insight with dry humour and down-to-earth content, Jon uses personal branding not for ego, but to build trust, attract talent, generate referrals, and represent his firm with authenticity. 

His posts consistently spark engagement, proving that in a crowded space, showing up as yourself is the most powerful strategy of all.

Jonathan Watmough 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 partnerships drive performance.

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.

Juliet Schalker is the Head of Dispute Resolution and equity partner at Debenhams Ottaway, which is a full-service, top 200 law firm based in Hertfordshire.

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.

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 risk.

Today, Paul will share his top 10 tips for how young law firm partners can increase their personal brand and excel in 2025.

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.

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 between legacy firms Barlow Robbins and Moore Blatch, the firms collectively have a history spanning 200 years.

Moore Barlow is now a full-service regional law firm based in South East England and has over 450 employees across six offices.