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Making the most of your press releases
A well-written press release will tell the journalist everything he or she needs to know about a story at a glance, simplifying their job and therefore heightening the chances of the topic being covered in the media. Press releases are also excellent for SEO, helping to drive traffic to your website and generate publicity and awareness of your activity.
Survey reveals urgent action is needed against online abuse
Specialist Internet defamation solicitors Bains Cohen LLP and legal PR consultancy Byfield have teamed up to promote the results of a major survey which looks at online abuse and to support the first private prosecution brought by an individual against Internet trolls.
Peppermint apprentices – you’re hired!
Legal technology innovator Peppermint Technology is delighted to support the development of the UK’s young talent by hiring four apprentices under the Microsoft-supported Apprenticeship Scheme.
Free kit for sole practitioners interested in being a virtual practice
Virtual Practices – the online software and accounting division of Solicitors Own Software (SOS) – will offer a free information kit to delegates at the Solicitor Sole Practitioners’ Group Conference. It is also available to sole practitioners who are unable to attend.
Choose your weapons and take on the big competitors, New Dawn conference urges
An expanding market, increased competition and the licencing of the first alternative business structures (ABSs), are leaving high street and traditional firms feeling they are facing a ‘David and Goliath’ scenario – so they need to choose their weapons carefully to outmanoeuvre their competition.
Record rainfall highlights future insurance issues
Over the past month the UK has seen record levels of rainfall, nearly twice that which we would normally expect for April. As of May 4th, the Environment Agency still has 82 flood warnings in force, 21 of these alerting homeowners that immediate action is required.
New name for Litigation Costs Services as it develops ‘Jackson compliant’ costs software
On 1 May Litigation Costs Services, the first costs drafting firm to be a Legal Futures Associate, celebrated its tenth anniversary with a reception held at the RAF Club in Piccadilly.
Successful networking – some useful pointers for networking events
Networking events are a vital part of business development in legal and professional services and can be a great way to meet interesting people and prospective clients. Just like any other business development activity, it is a good to approach networking events with some prior consideration and planning.
From rules to principles: meeting the SRA challenge
Regular readers of Legal Futures will know that the compliance obligation for solicitors is changing. It all began on 6 October 2011 when the Solicitors Regulatory Authority launched a new outcomes-focused compliance regime which included a new code of conduct for solicitors.
Another Eclipse social media first – YouTube videos embedded within the client file
Hot on the heels of the recent announcement that Eclipse Legal Systems has integrated the “Big 3” social media sites into Proclaim case management software, YouTube integration has now joined the party. As with Proclaim’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook integration, YouTube… Read More
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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.
How unstoppable AI is reshaping UK legal practice
At a time when most technology innovation still flows from the US and China, UK lawtech is attracting growing international attention and capital.
