In entrepreneurial life, attempting to solve a personal problem can lead to a business venture. It goes like this: the budding entrepreneur identifies a problem, solves it, and a business emerges, hopefully.
This is exactly what happened to workplace and disputes lawyer, Florence Brocklesby, who, after taking a break from her legal career to raise her three young children, saw a gap in the market for a firm with a truly flexible work structure, enabling highly qualified female lawyers, who are also mothers, to return to satisfying careers.
“When I looked around wanting to get back into practice, I couldn’t see the kind of legal work that I wanted to do in terms of the quality of work that I wanted to do, but also the flexibility,” she explains. “I couldn’t see the job that I wanted, and that’s the reason that I had to make it for myself.”
This desire eventually became the London-based Bellevue Law, a firm offering employment practice and commercial disputes resolution for businesses and individuals.
Inspired by an article she read about a female lawyer who had left her city firm and started a legal practice from her kitchen table, Brocklesby did something similar from her garden office in 2014: “I started with a laptop, a basic website designed on a small budget by another South West London mum and some professional indemnity insurance, and that was pretty much what I had on day one.”
Next, she reached out to past contacts. “There was a...
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