Client work starts
the day.
The target ends it.
Then comes the timesheet, then the target — a number the firm expects you to reach. The longer the reporting takes, the less time remains for clients.
More of the day.
Where the working day goes.
The spreadsheet gets the time that should be available for clients. Here is the shift.
The timesheet, then the target
The day’s work still has to be entered, coded and checked against a number.
Less time for clients
The longer the reporting takes, the less time remains for advice and relationships.
A different working day
gunnercooke gives senior lawyers more of the day for the work that matters.
The point is not less accountability. It is more of the day back.See what this model could look like for your practice.
Talk confidentially →Your clients need your judgement. They do not need you feeding a firm’s internal machine.
Timesheets, chargeable-hour targets and billing thresholds exist to satisfy a firm’s financial model, not a client’s need. They are tools for forecasting revenue, setting partner draws and managing associate ratios.
gunnercooke was built on a different premise: experienced lawyers should be able to shape a working day around client work, not internal reporting.
Partners own their practice through their own limited company and contract with the firm to provide legal services. There is no internal target to feed. What you build is yours to decide.
Your practice
Choose the work, clients and direction that fit the practice you want to build.
More of the day
Set your own priorities without a firm-imposed billing number defining a good year.
A useful first step
Start with a confidential conversation about where you are and what you want next.
What changes when the spreadsheet steps back?
The model is not different for the sake of being different. It is different so you can spend more of your working day on clients, practice and life.
More time with clients
Less internal admin and fewer mandatory meetings competing with the work that matters.
More control over your working day
Build around the clients and matters you want to pursue, without a target imposed from above.
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.