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National Accident Helpline announces its Future Legal Minds for 2023
National Accident Helpline has announced both winners for its 2023 annual law competition. The essay competition invites law students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level to submit answers.
BigHand named Company of the Year in the 2023 Business Intelligence Group awards
The Business Intelligence Group today announced the winners of the 2023 BIG Awards for Business with BigHand winning the Company of the Year category. This follows BigHand’s award win last week for Workflow Management Platform of the Year at the 4th annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards
Monetary incentives to cut planning application timescales is an encouraging step in the right direction
The Chancellor’s announcement of some reform to our ailing planning application process will be positively received across the board by the property industry. Whilst this is largely focused on infrastructure, it paves the way for more reform in the near term by the current Government.
Selling or merging your legal practice
As Legal Practice M&A specialists, AJ Chambers understand the importance and gravity of planning the sale or merger of your practice.
How people management drives success for law firms
The success of a firm isn’t solely determined by its legal prowess. It’s also influenced significantly by how well it manages its most valuable asset: its people
Law firms must improve DEI efforts through objective work allocation or risk losing clients
According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the UK, only 18% of the law firm lawyer population is made up of ethnic lawyers and only 5% are disabled, compared to 14% in the overall UK workforce. With 85% of firms reporting greater pressure from clients to improve their diversity, equity and inclusion, does the dial need to move towards DEI to retain clients?
How your invoices could be costing you money
Running a successful law firm can be challenging. However, what many law firms overlook is how their invoicing process could be hurting their clients’ satisfaction levels. A bad invoicing process can lead to significant delays, lost revenue, and ultimately, loss of clients.
October 2023 data breach roundup
Various data breaches took place in October, with organisations from a range of industries being guilty of a number of serious incidents.
Far from ‘fixed’ – changes to Fixed Recoverable Costs continue
While most clinical negligence cases still remain outside the Fixed Recoverable Cost (FRC) regime following the broad expansion that was introduced at the start of this month, it doesn’t look like they will escape much longer.
How Clio helped Tenet Law become a 7-figure law firm
Currently, 41% of all crime in the UK is fraud. As Arun Chauhan, founder of Tenet Compliance & Litigation (also known as Tenet Law) explains, fraud generates complex responses from victims, “emotions are heightened because you’ve been wronged.”
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Mentoring the next generation of litigation leaders
As a female lawyer, from the North, with a state school education, I understand the value of sharing perspectives, experiences and contacts.
The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
