4: "The World's Greatest Lawyer: What Does It Take?" Ben Wilson interviews Karen Holden

Few people say what they want to be when they’re eight years old, and then stick to it. Karen Holden, founder and MD of A City Law Firm, is the anomaly, and in more ways than one. The epitome of an entrepreneurial lawyer, Holden set up her own practice after becoming disenfranchised while working for law firms that cared more about billing than the welfare of its clients. It proved to be the right decision. She was recently invited to 10 Downing Street to collect an award, and to celebrate her firm being listed as one of the top 100 businesses in the UK. Hers was the only law firm. Here Holden explains how she did it…