Juggling the many aspects of managing a law firm can undoubtedly be a challenge. Every practice manager will be tempted to take on many varied tasks – from fixing a printer to recruitment.

Awards can be an excellent way to boost your reputation amongst clients and referrers and can be a great asset to recruitment campaigns, but putting together entries can be time consuming.

DWF became the largest law firm listing in British history after its successful IPO earlier this month. As competitors keep a careful eye on its progress, what lessons can they draw as to public listings?

Virtual data rooms provide a secure collaboration and document sharing platform that consolidate documents into a centralised repository and facilitates their efficient management.

Back in the day, when I entered the legal profession, an age of the Telex and elephantine batteries operating mobile phones, most articled clerks, as they then were, eyed achieving equity status. That was expected.