| East Midlands firm Flint Bishop & Barnett may be
less well known than many of its competitor firms in
The Hot 100, but very few of them can point to a
2005-06 performance that could match that of the
Derbyshire-based outfit.
Revenue at Flint Bishop rose by a stunning 47 per
cent from £8.8m. The increase to £13m secured the
corporate and commercial firm a berth in The
Lawyer Rising 50 for the first time.
The firm’s managing partner Ken Dixon takes
much of the credit for implementing a strategy of
organic and targeted growth. Under Dixon the firm
launched a new office in Nottingham in March 2005
to cater for its fee-earner growth and it continues to
shun offers of merger.
Dixon says the firm’s ambition is to continue
developing further good-quality commercial and
private client work “both in and out of the region”.
The new Nottingham outpost is unlikely to be the
end of Dixon’s ambitions. | 
