The Firm · Est. 1927
Forty counsel, by design.
Most firms measure themselves in headcount. We cap ours — because the house style is taught, not hired, and because a client of this firm retains the firm, not a rotating cast of it.
Gray's Inn Road, 1927
Discretion as a
professional skill.
Edmund Harrow drafted like a surgeon; Josiah Vane negotiated like a chess clock. Their founding conviction — that the client's name should appear in the papers only on the deed itself — has survived ninety-seven years, three buildings, one Blitz, and the invention of the press release.
The firm remains a partnership in the old sense: every partner has read every associate's work, the library is used daily, and the single-page advice is drafted seventeen times before it looks effortless.
The creed
Five sentences on the wall.
Say less, later, to greater effect.
Prepare as if for trial; settle as if by rumour.
The client's name belongs on the deed, not in the papers.
A conflict declined is a reputation compounded.
One page. If it doesn't fit, it isn't finished.
Counsel · 3 of 40
The partners of record.
Eleanor Vane KC
Managing partner · Disputes · London
Marcus Aldrich
Senior partner · Corporate · Zurich
Clara Osei-Bonsu
Partner · Private wealth · SingaporeThe remaining thirty-seven are found in rooms, not directories. Clients meet their full team at the first meeting — by name, with mobile numbers.
Of record
The unadvertised numbers.
0 years
At the bar, uninterrupted — including the years the building wasn't standing.
0 counsel
Capped by partnership vote in 2016. Revisited annually; upheld annually.
£0bn
In matters resolved across the four practices, most of it invisibly.
0%
Of approaches conflict-checked out or turned away last year. See creed, item iv.
Chambers
Three cities,
one clock.
- London
- Gray's Inn Road · —
- Zurich
- Bahnhofstrasse · —
- Singapore
- Raffles Place · —
A matter opened in any office is a matter of the whole firm. The handover between time zones happens at 07:00 and 15:00 London time, daily, by voice — never by memo.
