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Wake up to The Great British Property Scam
Unlawful property investment schemes have now failed in huge numbers across the UK. At one point, even burial plots were being sold unlawfully to unwitting investors.
Why law firms should be investing in the metaverse
Law firms should be on their toes, at least considering or preparing strategies to understand or even enter new virtual worlds if they haven’t already started to activate them.
Investment in paralegals pays dividends
Paralegals are the backbone of the UK legal sector, with many lawyers simply unable to do their jobs without the support of skilled paralegals. An estimated 100,000 paralegals work in the UK.
A manifesto for a 21st century law firm client relationship
What should the external counsel relationship look like in 2022? GCs want a level of service that extends well beyond technical legal advice and support. But are law firms really ready to respond?
What’s the lifespan of your law firm’s brand?
A brand refresh, particularly one that amounts to a full rebrand involving a change to the name and visual identity, is not something to be undertaken lightly.
How to create a brand for your new law firm and attract clients
Let’s assume that the scary part is over, and you’ve started your own law firm. Congratulations! It’s now time to turn to the next burning issue: how to get clients for a firm that no one has heard of.
How to create a disaster recovery plan for your law firm
Cyber-attacks are not the only threat to law firms’ data. Incidents like power outages, equipment failures, terrorist attacks and natural disasters all pose a risk to business data and infrastructure.
AI, ‘AI washing’ and the case for using your legal brain
There are two questions: firstly whether AI itself actually exists and secondly, whether the businesses that purport to be selling AI services are actually ‘AI washing’.
Become an insurance lawyer – it may not be sexy but it’s a good career
As a youth in the 80s, I never had much success with “actually I’m in insurance” as a chat-up line. It evoked the image of a corporate pencil pusher living for their retirement.
How much is that law firm in the window?
We are seeing some evidence of law firm buyers taking a more cautious approach to the way they structure deals and conduct their due diligence.
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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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