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The Permanent Headcount Trap (And Why Legal Teams Are Finally Escaping It)

Revenue per employee is having a moment. Not because consultants invented a new metric. Because the old scaling math stopped working. Lovable hit $400M ARR with 146 people. These numbers signal something interesting: you can build serious revenue without proportional headcount. The question founders used to ask was how many people they needed next quarter. The question now is how good each person needs to be and how much they can amplify their role. That shift matters everywhere. In legal, i

17 June 2026 · 4 min read

The Duty Has to Land Somewhere

There’s a confident thesis going round legal tech, and the sharp versions of it are good, so I want to give it its due before I take issue with it. It runs like this: AI commoditises legal drafting, and at the same time kills the demand for checking the draft, so routine commercial work just skips the lawyer. A business reads a confident AI draft, decides the risk is fine, and signs. No lawyer, no check, done. On the first half of that, that drafting is commoditising fast, I think they’re right.

11 June 2026 · 5 min read

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What companies actually need from legal — and when to buy it

Only 1.7% of UK seed-stage companies have an in-house senior legal function. Most default to law firms at £278–£579 an hour, or to nothing at all. Neither is right. The trigger to scale legal capacity should be data, not founder anxiety.

10 June 2026 · 9 min read

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Why great lawyers don't go independent — and the quiet fix most are missing

The constraint isn't talent — senior lawyers have the skills. They hesitate because they're trained to be risk-averse, and going independent looks like one big decision. It isn't. There's a quieter path most lawyers don't see.

10 June 2026 · 8 min read