Impact Lawyers is marking its first anniversary after a year of rapid growth and award recognition.
Launched in May 2025 by Victoria Hall and Kevin Withane, Impact Lawyers was created to provide SMEs, start-ups and growing businesses across areas including employment law, corporate and commercial law, HR, leadership, governance, people strategy and wider business support.
In its first year, the business has grown to support more than 250 clients and developed from a two-person start-up into a global network of legal, HR, leadership, commercial and business consultants, exceeding its original three-year plan within year one. Impact Lawyers has also recently been accepted into a global network of law firms.
The milestone follows two recent award wins for Victoria, who was named winner of the IoD Wales Director of the Year Start-Up Award and has also been announced as one of WeAreTheCity’s 2026 Rising Star winners. Impact Lawyers was also runner up in the FSB HSBC Growth Award for the East of England in the Start up category.
Victoria said:
“When Kevin and I launched Impact Lawyers, we wanted to build something very different from the legal environments I had experienced before. I reached a point where I had lost my sense of purpose and was no longer working in a way that aligned with my values. I knew I either had to leave the profession I had worked so hard to be part of, or build something I could be proud of.
“That decision led to Impact Lawyers. Our vision is ‘for you, with you’, and we have worked hard to embed that in both our client model and our internal culture. We wanted to create a people-first business where how we work matters just as much as what we deliver.”
As part of its next phase of growth, Impact Lawyers is applying to become a regulated company and is also exploring acquisition opportunities.
Victoria added:
“Collaboration will continue to be central to our ongoing growth. We want to work with other law firms, consultants and business networks that share our values. Where there is no appetite for collaboration, that is usually a sign that the relationship is not right for us.”
Looking ahead, Impact Lawyers plans to continue expanding its reach while maintaining its people-first approach to legal and business support.
The business is also continuing to support wider communities and underrepresented groups, including through Victoria’s work with Diversity X, her role as a trustee of an addiction support charity and her position as a non-executive director for a not-for-profit organisation.
Before co-founding Impact Lawyers, Victoria served as an RAF Officer, before retraining as an employment lawyer and becoming a partner at a corporate law firm. However, after experiencing burnout and losing her sense of purpose within the traditional legal environment, Victoria took time away from corporate law before setting out to build a business that reflected her own values and approach to people, performance and leadership.
