
Counsel Culture: The Business of Law Podcast
Hosted by Linzi and Ben and Alex Novarese and Ben Girdlestone and Eleanor and Linzi Goldthorpe and Michael · Byfield
4.6from 11 ratings
- 126
- Episodes
- 71
- Transcribed
- 11
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 907
- YouTube views
About Counsel Culture: The Business of Law Podcast
Counsel Culture is your weekly digest of the biggest news stories in the UK Legal Market, brought to you by Byfield.
- Publisher
- Byfield
- Category
- business · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Oct 2022
- Latest episode
- 30 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
71 of 126 episodes have a transcript.

30 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How did one of the world’s most prestigious law firms reach this point in a matter of days?

23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why law firm conduct is making the headlines

16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What’s been making headlines in the legal market since September?
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How did one of the world’s most prestigious law firms reach this point in a matter of days?
Published 30 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Then often they end in fire sale or some cases there were actual insolvencies. Dewey and Abarth is the closest comparison. But Dewey was a firm with systemic issues and many, many issues in terms of management and culture and liabilities. While in a conventional sense of the word, had none of that. What it appears to be is partly issues to do with culture, partly issues to do with the handover from Barry Wolf. I think it was not, it was a firm that was seen to not quite work out where it sat in the market. A lot of it is what you'd call for one of a better term, the post-Kirban effect. It's kind of mobile star culture, And a market where deals for top partners, you know, getting up to $20 million a year, $30 million a year for the biggest names. […]
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- Oliver Attinger
- Hayley Brooksbank
- Dana Denis-Smith
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- YouTube views
- 907
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 10 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100
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- Quality
- 65
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 66
- Engagement
- 60
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Who hosts Counsel Culture: The Business of Law Podcast?
Linzi and Ben and Alex Novarese and Ben Girdlestone and Eleanor and Linzi Goldthorpe and Michael host the show. Published by Byfield.
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