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Anxiety is not just for Mental Health Awareness Week
Anxiety, the theme of this Mental Health Awareness Week, is pervasive amongst legal professionals and is one of the top three reasons people turn to LawCare for emotional support.
Do you have customers or clients?
Calling a customer a client does not make them one, even if you consider them to be. Only the individual or individuals can truly decide whether they consider themselves a client of your legal practice.
Should the Wills Act 1837 be revoked to prevent predatory marriage?
One of the issues currently being considered by the Law Commission (and by the Law Society and STEP) is whether marriage should no longer automatically revoke a will.
When will I be SLAPPed? Lawyers need to know
Nine months ago, the government said it intended to pursue legislative reform to combat SLAPPs at “the earliest opportunity”. There is no sign of it yet. So where does this delay leave litigation lawyers?
Why your firm needs a diversity, equality and inclusion framework
Diversity, equality and inclusion work at law firms can be rushed in as a ‘reactive’ system for various reasons. This is not the most efficient way to promote it.
Could working together help the PI market bounce back?
The cost-of-living crisis coupled with the ‘no win, no fee’ chance for genuinely injured claimants to recover damages without paying a penny upfront should be a no-brainer, right? Wrong.
Advantage AI: The litigation game is changing
The idea of a workspace, whereby legal teams, counsel, judges, and clients can access a ‘single source of truth’ is a relatively novel concept; however, this is starting to grow in momentum.
Creating a future-ready law firm
Before the pandemic, most law firms across the UK had started the journey towards digital transformation. But historically the sector has been slow to recognise and adopt technological advancement.
Re-imagining the legal consultancy model: How to do it better
Post pandemic, the legal consultancy firms themselves, my own included, need to up their game by pivoting to a ‘consultancy-plus’ offering (and mindset).
AI – a game changer for legal education?
Every result on the SQE matters. Yet one recent result caught my eye – a candidate who scored a respectable if unspectacular 50%. The candidate was ChatGPT, the AI chatbot.
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The new metrics for success in conveyancing
While technology has made much of the conveyancing process faster, there remains a practical limit to how many matters anyone can manage while still keeping standards intact.
The UK legal market is polarising – and the middle is disappearing
Consolidation and the boutique boom are not contradictory. They are the same market stretching apart at both ends – and it changes what your firm is worth, and to whom.
Conveyancing’s consistency problem is about pressure, not skills
When I qualified, a conveyancer had perhaps 10 or 12 plates to keep spinning. Today’s conveyancers have 20 or 30, and almost none of the room for error I had starting out.
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