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The IHT threshold freeze increases the need for collaborative advice
At the end of March, the government announced that its total tax receipts for the nine months to February 2023 were £722bn, £66bn higher than in the same period 12 months earlier.
Upfront data: Is 2023 the year it lifts off?
Why is upfront data back on the agenda now, and what will we need to change to make it more successful than home information packs?
Going paperless could save you a lot of money – here’s how to do it
New research has revealed that SME law firms could save £336m each year and cut carbon emissions by digitising paperwork. But it requires careful consideration and planning.
The importance of training in personal injury litigation
Everyone involved in personal injury litigation will agree that training is a very important issue. The real question is whether they actually believe that and, if they do, how they implement such training.
Outdated restrictions have gone. Outdated thinking? Not so much
In truth there remains a considerable way to go before the whole profession recognises that inherent in providing legal services is delivering a service.
Making pricing for profitability every lawyer’s responsibility
On one hand, you hold your law firm’s needs. On the other, client expectations. In the balance lies your firm’s financial performance – your chief responsibility as a finance officer.
Lights out at the rank?
Nothing sets the rule-of-law pulse of some lawyers racing like a rich man with a dubious cause of action. What they are arguing for is the rights of the bad lads to be represented by them.
Choosing the right regulator for conveyancing
Working with so many law firms, I’m often asked whether the Council for Licensed Conveyancers or Solicitors Regulation Authority is better for conveyancers.
Who will be the legaltech winners?
The scale of the legaltech opportunity is significant. Firms ranging from start-ups to more established businesses are shifting their services to support law firms and in-house legal teams.
Your financial planning partner should double up as a CPD partner
It is vital as a lawyer to be able to recognise at what stage in a process the client they are advising needs to be referred to a carefully chosen third-party financial planning partner.
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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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