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Renewing your PII this spring? Here’s what you need to know
Since abolition of the common renewal date, practices have been free to choose when to renew their professional indemnity insurance. We estimate that around 30-40% now renew between March and April.
Thinking about selling your law firm? This is how you do it
Selling a law firm can be a complex process. The time comes when you might want to move on or retire, and finally extract as much value as you can from your practice. It’s a huge decision and a challenging task.
Solicitors’ firms – affordable, value-for-money services?
Price information is only the beginning of the consumer information journey. What people also tell us they want to know about is quality, and that is a much tougher question.
Do you need to tame a Gerald or Geraldine?
I have been around for so long that I can’t even type the number of years, because the keyboard starts laughing. But in all that time, I have never worked in or with a firm that does not have a Gerald or Geraldine.
Lawless lawyers: Is dishonesty really worse than a sexual offence?
Recent disciplinary decisions have seen a uncomfortable trend: some lawyers committing sex offences are allowed on carry on practising, but almost anyone guilty of dishonesty continues to be struck off.
Key considerations for implementing new technology
Technology is designed to disrupt the workplace and so change management and leadership are needed to see its appropriate and most effective implementation.
Ditching office space is a costly business
Slashing office space is being treated as the panacea for Covid-19, but at what cost? This aggressive and arguably short-sighted approach is creating a very virtual, almost dystopian legal environment.
When it comes to professional development, the future is hybrid
What is really worrying law firms, whatever their size, is how best to help their lawyers develop the skills they need in a remote working environment. The Bar faces the same challenges.
Everything has changed. Nothing has changed
For the majority of Black and ethnic minority citizens in this country, legal services are still as hard to reach, as hard to choose, or as hard to trust, as they were years ago.
Will this be the Year of Lawtech?
If 2020 taught us anything, it is that lawyers will not disappear any time soon. Still, paper will gradually disappear in favour of digital tools, investment in technology and better ways of working.
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It’s time for law firms to ask tougher questions
For years, many law firms have treated ID verification as a box-ticking exercise. Run a liveness check, match a face to a document and move on. But that is no longer good enough.
Business fatigue to AI will risk job security
Whilst we know professional learning has always been part of career paths, to hire, retain and keep talent, AI needs to be embedded as a core part of this training.
On good authority? GenAI and the reputational risks to law firms
As GenAI’s influence grows, so do the risks which are already playing out in courtrooms across England and Wales, where some early adopters are setting precedents they would rather not.
