When I had a video call with Dentons’ new chief executive last week, she said something I didn’t expect.

Bear in mind that Dentons has been the poster child of law firm growth over the last decade. Under the tenure of outgoing CEO Elliott Portnoy, the firm has become one of the biggest in the world by number of lawyers, at nearly 6,000, and number of countries in which it operates, which now totals 82.