The Codex Edge Platform Firms Report 2024 has confirmed Setfords’ position as the UK’s leading platform law firm, and the top hiring firm across the entire legal sector. The findings highlight how the platform model continues to transform legal services, driving growth, innovation, and opportunity in a market long dominated by traditional firms.
Pioneering platform law
With more than 650 lawyers nationwide, Setfords now has the largest consultant headcount of any platform firm in the UK. This achievement reflects a wider industry shift, as growing numbers of lawyers seek greater flexibility, autonomy, and professional fulfilment through the platform model.
Our scale is also matched by our expertise, ranking number one in several key practice areas, with particularly strong representation in commercial property, family law, and private client services.
The UK’s top hiring firm
The report also names Setfords as the UK’s number one hiring firm for 2023, welcoming 141 qualified lawyers over the year—more than any other firm, traditional or platform-based.
This was achieved through entirely organic growth, without mergers or acquisitions, showing the growing appeal of the fee-share consultancy model, especially among lawyers moving from traditional firms. It reflects both our commitment to empowering professionals and the broader momentum toward more flexible, technology-enabled legal practice.
With a model built on flexibility, innovation, and people, Setfords continues to set the benchmark for the future of legal services, offering lawyers a better way to work, and clients a better way to experience law.
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