Neville Eisenberg, the former managing and senior partner of legacy UK firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, has launched a law firm consultancy practice.
ClarityX Advisory aims to help law firm leaders and investors “make high-stakes decisions in the most disruptive period the legal sector has ever faced”.
Among the team of advisers are Emma Kaye, former global director of strategy implementation at Clifford Chance, Tom Hartley, former CEO of Lawyers on Demand and Yolanda Zollinger, whose former roles include chief operating office at Forresters IP.
ClarityX Advisory argues that law firm governance structures are ill-equipped to meet a confluence of pressures, including the need to invest in AI, rising client expectations, the impact of private capital investment in the sector and market consolidation. It has developed what it describes as a “structured diagnostic and decision-support tool” for law firm leadership teams.
“Law firm leaders are operating in a far more complex ecosystem than previously,” said Eisenberg. “Technology, capital, client behaviour, talent and competition are all moving rapidly and reshaping the market for legal services, while decision-making processes struggle to keep up. The issue isn’t a lack of ideas – it’s the challenge of making quick and coherent choices in complex, partner-led environments. That’s where experience, judgement and perspective can make the difference.”
Eisenberg was managing partner of Berwin Leighton Paisner for more than 15 years, becoming senior partner three years before its 2018 merger with Bryan Cave to form Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, now BCLP.
He went on to lead its standalone alternative legal services business, BCLP Cubed, as CEO, before it was discontinued in 2021.
A number of Eisenberg’s contemporaries have also established consultancies with similar offerings.
Last May, Wim Dejonghe and David Morley, two former senior partners of legacy UK Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy, launched a consultancy to advise on private equity investment in law firms.
In August, Jonathan Watmough, former managing partner of RPC, teamed up with specialist private equity adviser Adil Taha, to launch Taha & Co.
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