You have clients to
advise. Then you have
the timesheet.
The work is done. Now every hour has to be recorded, coded and reported back to the firm — time that was not spent with a client.
More clients.
What the timesheet costs you.
Every hour recorded is an hour not spent advising. Here is the shift.
Every hour recorded
Calls, matters and time entered, coded and reported back to the firm.
Attention taken from clients
Reporting turns a senior practice into a sequence of hours to enter and numbers to reach.
A different way to work
gunnercooke is built around client work — not around feeding a firm’s internal reporting machine.
The point is not less accountability. It is less time on internal admin.See what changes when reporting is no longer the centre of your day.
Talk confidentially →Your clients need your judgement. They do not need you feeding a firm’s internal reporting machine.
Internal reporting exists to satisfy a firm’s financial model, not a client’s need. Timesheets, coding and end-of-month reconciliation are tools for forecasting revenue and managing associate ratios.
gunnercooke was built on a different premise: experienced lawyers should spend their time on client work, not on feeding a firm’s internal machine.
Partners own their practice through their own limited company and contract with the firm to provide legal services. Reporting is lighter, and what you build is yours to decide.
Your practice
Choose the work, clients and direction that fit the practice you want to build.
Less time reporting
Spend less of the week recording hours and more of it advising clients.
A useful first step
Start with a confidential conversation about where you are and what you want next.
What changes when reporting steps back?
The model is not different for the sake of being different. It is different so more of your attention goes to clients, practice and life.
More time with clients
Less internal admin and fewer mandatory meetings competing with the work that matters.
Less time on internal reporting
Build around the clients and matters you want to pursue, without hours to enter and numbers to reach.
More room to choose
Shape a good year around your own ambitions, priorities and definition of success.
Want to see what it looks like for you?
A short, confidential conversation is the fastest way to work it through.
The practical questions matter.
Before you talk, you should know what the first conversation is for — and what it is not.
We can explain the structure, economics and practical steps in a confidential conversation, based on your practice and circumstances. The aim is to help you decide whether the model is right for you — not to rush you into a decision.
We will talk through the platform, infrastructure and support available to partners, and how those elements could work with the practice you want to build.
Client relationships are an important part of the conversation. We can discuss your current practice, your clients and the practical considerations involved in moving to a different model.
Yes. The first conversation is confidential and exploratory, with no obligation to proceed. Your enquiry stays with the gunnercooke recruitment team.
A member of the recruitment team will reply within 24 hours. They will arrange an introductory conversation at a time that works around your practice.
Let’s talk about your practice.
Tell us where you are now and what you want next. We will come back within 24 hours to arrange a confidential, no-pressure conversation.
Talk confidentially about your practice
Share a few details so we can make the first conversation useful.