While attempting to break into motor journalism, Sebastian Prichard Jones’ career took a slight detour. He decided to give law a try. 

Having joined Macfarlanes in 1998, twenty-five years on Prichard Jones is now the firm’s senior partner and one of the country’s most prominent private client lawyers, overseeing record rises in his firm’s profit per equity partner—which now outstrips most elite rivals—and successive years of double-digit revenue growth.