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Putting a data minimisation strategy in place

16 March 2023

The vast majority of firms don’t practice data minimisation. This is an unsustainable proposition in the long term, not to mention expensive and risky already.


The great call conundrum

15 March 2023

Every professional faces the same conundrum when it comes to answering calls. Do you spend less time on the phone and miss calls? Or do you answer every call, even if it disrupts your work?


Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Thinking outside the box

13 March 2023

Neurodiverse minds often have skills that are sometimes lacking in businesses due to them recruiting from a traditional mould that fit existing business structures and employee profiles.


Do you need to adapt your pricing models to safeguard profitability?

10 March 2023

Clients’ interest in alternative fee arrangements has become more of the rule and less of the exception. Last year, BigHand reported that client demand had increased 27% since 2019.


We can have the power

8 March 2023

International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It also provides an opportunity to reflect on the difficulties women still face in achieving gender parity.


Mixed claims: Progress but now time to sort out the rest of the problems

6 March 2023

Opinion remains mixed – aptly enough – over the recent ruling from the Court of Appeal on how mixed injury claims should be valued in the Official Injury Claim portal.


Short lived – how to encourage litigants into the new trial schemes

3 March 2023

The shorter trial scheme and flexible trial scheme became permanent under PD 57AB on 1 October 2018. Since then, take-up has been limited, despite their practical advantages


Boiling frog syndrome and law firm management

1 March 2023

The cost of living is affecting each and every one of us. Do you know who in your firm is under pressure at home? Do you know those in your firm who are struggling with finances?


Carrot or stick? The future for AML supervision of the legal sector

27 February 2023

The events of the last year have resulted an unprecedented focus on the role of the legal sector in enhancing the UK’s reputation as a haven for dirty money.


PII renewal: Is the tide turning?

24 February 2023

April continues to be a popular choice of renewal date for both law firms and insurers alike, and remains the second most common date for a law firm to renew their professional indemnity insurance.

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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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