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The announcement that extending fixed recoverable costs was delayed to October 2023 was perhaps the government’s most sensible decision for a long time – in the context of costs reforms, at least.

For modern law firms, a digital-first mindset is not about specific technologies or digital tools, but always about the people – employees and clients – who use them.

For the first time, the SRA is reminding firms, essentially the COLPs, that there should be processes established by the practice to assist and supervise their lawyers’ CPD efforts.

The last decade has seen the steady increase of the alternative legal service provider market and the dividing lines between them and law firms are increasingly blurred.

Far more matter mobility is taking place nowadays, and that this is a trend, not a phase. Since it can cause a significant administrative burden to fall on firms, they should try to minimise the impact.

My, how Ebenezer Scrooge’s fortunes had changed in the years since the ghostly visitations had left him clinging to a tattered bed-curtain, pleading for absolution.

A French court ruled recently that you don’t have to be ‘fun’ at work. It shines a spotlight on post-pandemic work culture and whether law firms are putting the pressure on for employees to ‘have fun’.

As I travel or Zoom across the UK, talking to law firm managing partners about their growth plans, top of their acquisition wish list are boutique law firms.

I have often felt that solicitors deem ‘marketing’ somewhat of a dirty word. A word perhaps considered by the profession to be more linked to the other mistrusted expression, ‘salesy’.

When a claimant is insolvent or close to being insolvent, whether on a balance sheet or cash flow basis, you can expect the defendant’s solicitors to make an application for security for costs.