Free 7-Email Course · For Managing Partners at Independent UK Law Firms
You're billing £200K+. You spent Saturday morning sorting mail.
A free 7-email course that shows managing partners the structural shift that reclaims 10+ hours a week. No new hires. No new systems. No new software.
You didn't build this practice to become its most expensive administrator.
Every managing partner I speak to describes the same moment. They left a large firm to do work they chose, for clients they chose. They built something real. They are earning well.
And they are the person sorting the inbox at 7am, reformatting documents on Sunday evening, chasing an invoice from a client of ten years.
You have associates. You have support staff. You have every tool the market has sold you. Yet the work only you can do, the complex advisory, the high-stakes negotiation, the relationship that brings in the next matter, competes daily with work a competent coordinator could handle at £20 an hour.
This is not a time management problem. It is structural.
Seven emails. Seven frameworks. One structural change.
The Pain Line
Three managing partners. Three breaking points. Which trajectory are you on, and have you already crossed the line?
The Buyback Principle
Why hiring to grow your practice is the wrong move, and what to do instead. The 95/5 rule that reframes everything.
Your Buyback Rate
A two-minute calculation that reveals your annual blind spot. At £650K billing, the number is £169,000. What's yours?
The Three Trades
You own your practice. So why are you operating like a salaried employee? The three levels of wealth, and which one you are actually on.
The DRIP Matrix
A four-quadrant tool that categorises every task in your workweek. See exactly what to delegate, what to protect, and where your time should actually go.
The Time & Energy Audit
Why the 10-minute task that drained your whole morning is costing you more than your heaviest billing day. The column missing from every time log.
The Fork
You will know exactly what to change. This email helps you choose how, and gives you two clear paths forward.
Who this course is for
For you
- You're a managing partner or senior partner at an independent UK law firm (2–50 fee earners)
- You're billing £150K–£500K+ but spending meaningful time on work that shouldn't touch your calendar
- You've tried productivity tools, hired good people, and still feel like the bottleneck
- You want to understand the economics of your time before making any decisions
Not for you
- You're at a large firm with full operational support
- You're looking for management advice or HR strategy
- You want software tutorials or tool recommendations
Why I built this
I spent years working with executive teams inside large corporates, and running decentralised, virtual teams under real pressure. Delegation there was not a nice-to-have. Work crossed time zones and passed between people who had never met in a room. A handoff either held, or the whole thing stalled.
You learn two things quickly. Trust has to be built into the process, not hoped for. And the person everything routes through is the bottleneck long before anyone is willing to say so.
Independent law firms carry the same pressure with almost none of that structure. The senior lawyer stays the single point every decision passes through, and it gets called judgment. Often it is just a handoff nobody ever built.
The frameworks in this course are adapted from Dan Martell's Buy Back Your Time, with every example, every number, and every story drawn from the world of independent legal practice.
Craig Miller, Founder of ChiefofStaff.pro
The numbers don't soften. They compound.
Email one arrives immediately. The calculation in it takes two minutes. What you do with the answer is the rest of your career.