What sets the best-led law firms apart?

What sets the best-led law firms apart?

Not what you might expect. It's not the hours billed or the rate charged. The best-led law firms share one trait, leadership.

That's the question Simon McCrum, keynote speaker at The Legal Conference 2026, puts to the room: what actually sets the best-led firms apart, and what's a senior lawyer's rate really worth compared to the power they can give a firm?

Simon has spent years working with ambitious law firms, and it's led him to one conviction, the power of leadership partners, and what a group of partners pulling together can achieve, goes far beyond anything one person could do alone.

Hear it from Simon himself by clicking here. ⬇️

On Thursday 15 October, Simon brings that thinking to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, delivering the keynote on The Role of Partners in a Modern Law Firm, unpacking what it actually takes to turn senior lawyers into leaders who multiply a firm's potential, not just its output.

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