You've just been elected managing partner.
Bellamy & Howe is a 47-person firm with good people, healthy fees and a diary that is already full. LawSim puts you in charge for eight weeks and lets you find out what your way of running it actually does to the firm.
Partners knock on your door. Email arrives faster than you can answer it. A fee-earner wants a decision, a supplier wants a renewal, and the person everyone quietly relies on looks tired. You choose what to take on, what to hand over, and to whom.
Nothing is labelled as right or wrong. Your choices have consequences, and some of them arrive weeks later from somewhere you weren't looking. At the end you see what happened and why, traced back to the decisions that caused it.
The firm is fictional. The problems will feel familiar to anyone who has run one.
Managing partner
Newly elected and working around 55 hours a week. Everyone's door leads to yours.
Practice manager
Responsible for most of the firm, in charge of very little of it, and everyone's first call when something breaks.
Operations director
You can see exactly what needs to change. Whether you have the standing to change it is another matter.
Seventeen shorter runs at the same firm, four to seven weeks each.
- Key person off sick
- Partner resignation
- Trainee intake
- Hybrid working policy
- New PMS implementation
- New phone system
- AI tool rollout
- Cyber incident
- Introducing new KPIs
- Year-end billing push
- Cash squeeze
- SRA AML inspection
- Qualified accountant's report
- Founder succession
- Profit-share review
- Merger approach
- Office move
- Sign up with your name and firm. There's no password, and your browser keeps you signed in, so finish on the device you started on.
- Play it the way you would actually run the firm. A 20-minute quick play exists, but the full run is the one worth playing.
- The regulatory detail (SRA, AML, client money) is illustrative, not advice.