We are delighted to announce that Peter Jackson – former Managing Partner and CEO of Hill Dickinson – has joined us as a Strategic Adviser and Consultant.
Peter brings almost two decades of senior leadership experience at one of the UK’s best-known independent law firms. Having joined Hill Dickinson in 1983, he became managing partner in 2005 and then CEO when the role was created in 2016, before stepping down at the end of April 2024 and retiring from the partnership in April 2026. Since stepping down as CEO, Peter has pursued a portfolio career and will remain as a NED with Hill Dickinson, while continuing to advise and mentor firms and individuals in the professional services sector. He also continues to lecture on management issues and host Hill Dickinson’s 3:AM Conversations podcast.
Peter will focus on supporting our strategic growth and market impact as a Tier 1 adviser to professional services clients – including international and UK law firms – across the full spectrum of partnership structuring, governance, remuneration and sensitive risk-led partnership investigations and disputes, alongside the firm’s market-leading employment and regulatory capability.
We are ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners UK for Partnership and for Employment: Senior Executives, and Tier 1 by Legal 500 in the same areas, alongside recognition for our growing professional discipline capability.
Our specialist team of 24 lawyers and legal professionals, based in the City, advises law firms and professional services businesses on partnership and LLP structuring, mergers, governance, partner remuneration, investigations, partner exits and high-stakes disputes, as well as the full range of related employment and restrictive covenant issues.
Clare Murray, Founder and Managing Partner of CM Murray LLP, commented:
“We are delighted to welcome Peter Jackson to CM Murray LLP. Peter is one of the most respected law firm leaders of his generation – values-led, strategically astute, and deeply experienced in guiding a partnership through growth, change and complexity. Our clients come to us when the stakes are high – when governance, partner dynamics, risk and reputation all sit on the table at the same time. His appointment is a significant step in our own growth strategy: strengthening the leadership and advisory dimension of what we provide to senior management teams, while continuing to deliver the specialist legal excellence for which we are known.”
“We have built a team with deep bench strength and specialist focus and collectively, CM Murray’s lawyers bring more than 250 years’ experience in advising firms and partners.”
“Peter’s experience will further enhance our ability to support law firms and other professional partnerships with the strategic choices they are navigating, including mergers, remuneration redesign, succession, culture and external investment.”
Peter Jackson added:
“CM Murray LLP is widely recognised for its depth of partnership expertise and its understanding of how professional services firms actually work – culturally as well as legally. I’m very much looking forward to supporting Clare and the team as they build on an already market-leading platform, and to working with law firm leaders who want clear, practical and strategically grounded advice at moments that shape the future of their firms.”
CM Murray is an exceptional, stand-out practice in partnership and employment law.”
– Legal 500 2025
“A simply excellent team involved in many of the big-ticket senior executive claims.”
– Legal 500 2025
“The firm is a leader in the field of Professional Discipline.”
– Chambers and Partners 2026
