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What really drives consumers to choose your PI firm?
68% of solicitors imagine that consumers shop around before making a final choice, yet only a quarter of PI clients said they actually did.
Managing Remote Teams: An Essential Guide for Managers
As a leader in your business, how can you achieve the best productivity and boost morale when your team is working from home? We have brought together leadership tips and insights being shared by digital workplace transformation experts right now, including from the Leeds Digital Festival just last month.
Flooding: Out of Sight should not mean out of Mind
It would be very tempting to think that after the sunniest spring and summer on record for many, together with some of the lowest rainfall totals, 2020 has been, at least weather wise, remarkably calm. But we so often have short memories.
Crime Legal Aid Fee Increases – Team LAWFUSION Is Quick-off-the-mark
During the last few weeks, the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has announced its Criminal Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 – described by the Law Society as “the first legal aid fee increases for 25 years.” In light of this, legal software authors, Select Legal Systems Limited, have reported today that they are already working on reflecting the changes within their flagship product – LAWFUSION – leading legal practice management software for law firms.
First law firm in Finland goes live on iManage cloud
iManage, the company dedicated to transforming how professionals work, today announced that Borenius Attorneys Ltd. (Borenius) – a leading independent Finnish law firm with offices in New York, London, and St Petersburg – has deployed to iManage Cloud to become the first law firm in Finland to move to the cloud for its work product management needs. This deployment builds on iManage’s growing presence in the Nordics.
Data breach expert joins Keller Lenkner UK
Kingsley Hayes, data breach and cybercrime specialist, has joined Keller Lenkner UK as head of its data breach team
Lanyon Bowdler choose PracticeEvolve to deliver client efficiencies
After an in-depth selection process involving a number of suppliers, Lanyon Bowdler have chosen to replace their existing Legal Business Management systems with rapidly growing technology provider, PracticeEvolve.
Search is on for 2021’s Future Legal Mind
A search for the most promising legal talent of 2021 is now underway. The Future Legal Mind Award is run annually by National Accident Helpline to find the UK’s brightest legal prospect. Now in its seventh year, the competition is open to law students and to legal trainees who are within the first two years of their careers.
Lifetime Legal selects SearchFlow’s Continuity Property Solution
SearchFlow – the UK’s largest provider of legal due diligence data for residential and commercial property transactions – has announced that Lifetime Legal has adopted its innovative Continuity Property Solution to provide its panel with a viable alternative to traditional search packs, and therefore speed-up the overall residential conveyancing process.
Milnes Legal chooses Eclipse’s Compact+ practice management system
Growing law firm, Milnes Legal, is implementing the Compact+ practice management solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the UK’s leading legal software provider.
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A letter from the SRA? Your first reaction matters
An email from the SRA has a way of rearranging a working day. It arrives in the same inbox as everything else, often in the same measured tone, yet it carries a different weight.
Regulate sole practices on evidence, not turnover
For a sole practice, the SRA’s plan that I cannot hold a compliance role if my firm has more than £600,000 of turnover is not a measure of risk. It is a ceiling on growth.
Is Google becoming pay-to-play for law firms?
For years, law firms have been told that SEO is the long-term alternative to paying for every click. That principle hasn’t disappeared but search results have changed significantly.
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