As a lawyer, I could never quite shut down the voice in my head telling me I had a responsibility to tell people the inconvenient truths they didn’t want to hear but which someone needed to tell them.

As King Charles draws a lungful of bracing Sandringham air before wishing us all a Merry Christmas, many in the legal profession will be reflecting on 2023 as a year of mixed blessings.

When we are all operating in the same space and offering roughly the same services, why do some firms succeed whilst others don’t?

‘Rizz’ may be the word of 2023, but mine would have to be ‘AI’. With the huge leaps it has taken over the last 12 months, we’d all be forgiven for thinking we were about to be automated out of a job.

The profession’s ethics are under the spotlight, so it should not be a surprise that for the next generation of lawyers there is an expectation that the legal sector move with the times