Rich Phillips

Founder @Carbon Law Partners

Manchester, GB

Founder & Director – Cascade Legal2013 – PresentCascade is a consultancy I founded to bring fresh thinking and sustainable solutions to professional services. Over the past decade, it has grown into two complementary strands:Family Office & Private Client Services – helping business owners and families protect, structure, and pass on their wealth with clarity and confidence.LocumPro – connecting Private Client teams with outstanding practitioners, creating flexible resourcing solutions that keep service levels high and client needs fully supported.At its heart, Cascade is about empowering people, refining processes, and harnessing technology to deliver excellent client experiences. My work has spanned strategic projects, cultural transformation, and service innovation across legal, financial, and professional services businesses.Highlights include- Acting as interim COO for a pan-European projects business, setting up a multi-company structure to deliver sustainability and welfare programmes- Driving digital transformation programmes for legal and financial businesses, generating high income growth per client while embedding sustainable practices to cut costs- Designing and delivering a socially inclusive training academy producing 25+ new legal advisers per year from non-traditional backgrounds- Reshaping procurement processes to strengthen sustainable supply chains- Advising on corporate development, governance, and business disposals for growing companies- Providing specialist legal analysis on private client operations

Alison

Diploma in Sustainable Business

The University of Hull

LLB (Hons)

STEP England & Wales

STEP Accredited Practitioner