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As 2024 begins, aspiring legal minds are gearing up for the start of pupillage applications – a defining moment in their pursuit of a career at the Bar.

As a lawyer, I could never quite shut down the voice in my head telling me I had a responsibility to tell people the inconvenient truths they didn’t want to hear but which someone needed to tell them.

As King Charles draws a lungful of bracing Sandringham air before wishing us all a Merry Christmas, many in the legal profession will be reflecting on 2023 as a year of mixed blessings.

When we are all operating in the same space and offering roughly the same services, why do some firms succeed whilst others don’t?

‘Rizz’ may be the word of 2023, but mine would have to be ‘AI’. With the huge leaps it has taken over the last 12 months, we’d all be forgiven for thinking we were about to be automated out of a job.

The profession’s ethics are under the spotlight, so it should not be a surprise that for the next generation of lawyers there is an expectation that the legal sector move with the times

Some 12 years on from its first published research, the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners has published a new report: Wills and Trusts – Buyers Beware.

The long march of lawyers across Europe continues apace more than 50 years after US law firms, together with their City counterparts, first opened offices in Paris and Brussels.

Where budgets are tight, lawyers will be considering what’s in their existing arsenal to still improve productivity. One effective, accessible and cheap tool is legal project management.

Good customer service should be a priority for any business and, if you want to stay ahead of the competition, something that’s constantly under review.