My, how Ebenezer Scrooge’s fortunes had changed in the years since the ghostly visitations had left him clinging to a tattered bed-curtain, pleading for absolution.

A French court ruled recently that you don’t have to be ‘fun’ at work. It shines a spotlight on post-pandemic work culture and whether law firms are putting the pressure on for employees to ‘have fun’.

As I travel or Zoom across the UK, talking to law firm managing partners about their growth plans, top of their acquisition wish list are boutique law firms.

I have often felt that solicitors deem ‘marketing’ somewhat of a dirty word. A word perhaps considered by the profession to be more linked to the other mistrusted expression, ‘salesy’.

When a claimant is insolvent or close to being insolvent, whether on a balance sheet or cash flow basis, you can expect the defendant’s solicitors to make an application for security for costs.