About the firm
A partner-owned firm of corporate advisers and trial lawyers, kept small on purpose so that the people you meet are the people who do the work.
Halden Row was founded by two trial lawyers who believed a firm could be small, careful and good in court at the same time. It has grown slowly since, and on purpose.
Owned by its partners
No outside investors and no targets that are not about clients.
Small by design
We grow only when we can staff new work with people we trust.
Advisers and advocates
The corporate practice was built to sit beside the trial practice, not apart from it.
A firm that grew one practice at a time.
Each practice was added only when there was a partner to lead it and clients who needed it. The dates are the milestones; the method has not changed.
Practice areasTwo trial lawyers open the firm
A small disputes practice for owner-managed companies, from a single floor.
A corporate practice joins
Advisers who had spent years on the other side of disputes come in to draft the deals.
Employment and property
Two practices added, each led by a partner who came from the trial bench.
One bench of counsel
Six practices, four partners, two counsel and a team kept deliberately small.
Written into the partnership agreement in 2000 and unchanged since.
“Good counsel is mostly patience, preparation and plain words.”
Candour
We say what we think, early, and in writing.
Care
We read everything ourselves and check it twice.
Restraint
We take only the work we can do well, and tell you when we cannot.
Time given, not just billed.
Every lawyer at the firm gives part of their year to people and organisations who could not otherwise afford counsel.
Pro bono
- Advice for small charities
- Tenancy hearings for local clinics
- Governance help for community groups
Training
- Advocacy workshops for students
- Mentoring for first-generation lawyers
- Open evenings on starting a business
Tell us what is at stake. A partner replies within one working day.
A short note is enough to begin. We run a conflict check first, then call you to talk it through, without charge and without commitment.
- 01 A few lines on what happened and when
- 02 The names of the other parties, for the conflict check
- 03 Any date that cannot move: a hearing, a closing, a deadline