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Why 2023 is a great time to start a law firm

20 February 2023

Over the past few years, many legal practitioners have been weighing up their options, making initial enquiries and starting to consider what running their own practice might look like.


Divorce work in 2023 – from fluctuating assets to open justice

17 February 2023

The seismic events of 2022 have presented the divorce industry with unprecedented challenges, and 2023 seems set to deliver more of the same.


To transparency and beyond!

15 February 2023

Increasingly, consumers in need of legal advice or a service will begin their research online, so a solicitor’s website must embrace not only the reasoning behind transparency but also go much further.


ChatGPT: Time to fear the threat from artificial intelligence?

13 February 2023

Lawyers have never felt threatened by the emergence of industrial robots or the internet. An AI tool which can generate decent answers to complicated questions in a matter of seconds makes the fear real.


Six operational strategies for a successful 2023

9 February 2023

The effectiveness of your law firm relies almost entirely on the daily habits of your team. These either help them to run a successful firm aligned with their goals, or damage performance.

Chris Pucci, CEO of Osprey Approach, says that building better business habits “helps you to establish a foundation of seamless and effective processes designed for maximum output.


Reflections on the SQE one year on

6 February 2023

There are some emerging themes across our student body that may help future students at any provider have the best chance of passing the SQE.


Running a tech incubator – the Allen & Overy experience

3 February 2023

Uncertainty can be tricky for us lawyers, but if I’ve learned anything these past six and a half years, it’s that an endeavour like Fuse doesn’t pay off unless you’re willing to take some calculated risks.


Where next for the regulation of NFTs?

1 February 2023

The crypto market experienced a wave of turbulence towards the end of last year. But the interest in the technology underlying non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and blockchain protocols remains strong.


An end to the M&A boom?

30 January 2023

Last year saw a steady stream of law firm mergers and acquisitions but, in 2023, with economic storm clouds gathering, the M&A landscape is likely to change considerably.


What may Zahawi’s lawyers have got wrong?

26 January 2023

Many have written on Dan Neidle’s allegations about Nadim Zahawi, but the finer points about what he thinks the lawyers have got wrong have not been clearly identified.

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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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