THEDispute Resolution Ten

CONVENING NOW · FILMS 2027

Get to know ten founders of Britain's independent dispute resolution practices: commercial disputes as they are actually settled, and occasionally fought, in their own words.

NOW CONVENING · FIRST EPISODES 2027
A TEN CHAIRS SERIES
On the Ten Chairs set
THE SERIES, IN BRIEF

By the time a business calls a dispute resolution lawyer, most of the decisions that mattered have already been taken. The expensive part is rarely the argument itself. It is everything that happened before it.

The ten people in this series run Britain's independent dispute resolution practices. Between them they have taken thousands of commercial arguments to the door of the court, and settled most of them before it opened. The same questions go to all of them and the answers sit side by side: when to fight and when not to, what winning actually costs, and why the strongest case is not always the one worth bringing. Twelve questions across the year, published in full.

THE EPISODES

One question per episode.
Ten answers, side by side.

Every question goes to all ten chairs, and every episode sets their answers side by side. One publishes every month. It opens with these.

EPISODE 01 When do you tell a client not to fight?
EPISODE 02 Why do most cases settle at the door of the court, and not a year earlier?
EPISODE 03 What does winning actually cost?
Then it is published as a book, and the questions begin again.

More questions are published as the series convenes.

HOW THE SERIES WORKS
WHO GETS A CHAIR
The people who run the firms, not the loudest voices. A chair cannot be applied for: each one is extended to someone whose answers count.
BETWEEN THE QUESTIONS
Quick-fire rounds, the stories behind each firm, and questions sent in by the people watching run through the year.
HOW THE YEAR CLOSES
When the twelve questions are answered they are published as a book, with the ten who hold the chairs portrayed on the cover. Then the questions begin again.
Questions are put by the series’ editorial desk. There is no host.
THE TEN
NOW CONVENING

Who’s appearing.

The founders of the independent practices that lead commercial disputes, from arbitration to fraud and asset recovery, each holding an invited chair.

The ten are being convened now, one invitation at a time. The line up is announced in one go, the way a cast always is, and appears here from launch onwards. Until then no contributor is named: we do not trade on one company’s name to fill the next chair.

NOMINATIONS

Who belongs in these ten?

The ten are found by invitation and by nomination. If there is someone you would put in one of these chairs, tell us who.

Nominations are read by the editorial desk. Chairs remain by invitation.

WHEN IT AIRS

Know the moment Episode 1 airs.

Each episode as it publishes, with its question and what the ten said. Every episode stays, in full, on the Ten Chairs channel on YouTube.

Contributing

Chairs are held by invitation, one company to a specialism; while a chair is held, that discipline is closed. If you lead a company in one of our industries and think you should hold one, tell us about your company.

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