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And it's a less of a challenge for, I mean, you've got to balance that together with we have, we've had new staff coming in and we've, this year we've hired two law graduates.

And so then that delicate balance of sort of trying to, when they come in, sort of them to start as we intend them to go on but I think we have to respect the knowledge that people bring who've been like lawyers or in a law firm for a long time and sort of almost try and use each what I'm trying to do is use people's strengths so with the younger people that are coming in and solicitors I'm trying to sort of be like okay well you could probably do that and he can consult trying to work out where everyone fits in so that we can use everyone's advantages to best sort of slot everyone in together and can help each other out.

Yeah.

And Sally, how do you look to navigate community ties? You obviously had your own established practice already, but now you've taken over DLH.

So I think, yeah, I think it's probably more of a like leader than anything in terms of like the law, but trusting your own like instincts and knowing that you're sort of on the right track, I suppose.

Yeah.

And I mean, you've scattered this conversation with a few different lessons for lawyers out there who might be taking over legacy firms in the future, but in the current climate with everything going on in the economy, with the age of AI upon us, what are some of the headline lessons that you would look to offer to other lawyers who might be interested in acquiring legacy firms, um, or if they are in the process of acquiring legacy firms, what would be your advice to them?

I think it's definitely worthwhile having done It's a very interesting thing.

Like this is a way that I can sort of meld my science background with legal.

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Grace, I would love to start with you and ask, why women-led law firms this year? Why was this the focus of this year's conference? I mean, what is it you're hearing from women lawyers about the kinds of practices they want to build?

Well, the Women Lawyers Forum is acutely aware of the problems faced by women in law.

to have the same name, address, and phone on every directory where it shows up.

So that would be, as I have mentioned here, Google Business, Profile, Bing, Apple Maps, Avvo, Justia, Lawyers.com, everything.

So what you would do in order to do your own test, search your name and attorney and see what happens in the first two to three pages.

And if you are seeing that you're not showing up, you might want to go ahead and check and see where you can go ahead and correct this and make sure that the information is consistent because it really does matter to AI.