To most people, the Lone Ranger is an all-American action hero. But the term took on an altogether more sinister meaning at a roundtable for senior law firm partners in California, which was held by Legal Week Global in association with management consultant Alan Hodgart.

The session agreed that the most lethal threat to the wellbeing of the world’s top law firms are partners who act alone and do not bind themselves into their firms’ cultures – the ‘lone rangers’.