How do you run one of the largest law firms in the northwest of England? Mike Leeman, Managing Partner of Bell Lamb & Joynson, shares the leadership lessons no one teaches in law school.
In Episode 2 of Life in Law, host Charles Peter sits down with Mike Leeman - Managing Partner of Bell Lamb & Joynson, a Liverpool law firm founded in 1821 - to talk about what it really takes to run a modern law firm at scale.
Bell Lamb & Joynson is now the largest provider of conveyancing services in the Liverpool City Region, the ninth largest in the northwest of England, and the largest provider of criminal defence services in the northwest by volume of cases. Mike walks through how a 200-year-old firm has continued to evolve, how he became Managing Partner through an unconventional route, and why most lawyers find themselves leading businesses they were never trained to run.
This is a conversation for anyone navigating the gap between practising law and leading a firm — and for anyone wondering what really sits behind the success of a long-established practice.
🎙️ About Life in Law Life in Law is a podcast hosted by Charles Peter, CEO of Datalaw. Each episode features candid conversations with law firm leaders about the careers, setbacks, and decisions that shaped them.
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