Blog


Why data shows the OIC portal’s DIY approach isn’t working

8 February 2022

With nine in every 10 claimants still seeking representation to help them navigate the OIC portal – supposedly designed so they wouldn’t need help – it doesn’t seem to have been a success.


Sustainability – from impact investing to impact supplying

4 February 2022

What businesses need to be doing, large and small, is showing that our everyday decisions include questioning and understanding sustainability and trying to bring suppliers with us.


Helping lawyers to work from home, not live at work

31 January 2022

While hybrid working offers greater flexibility, technology has also created an ‘always on’ culture where the boundaries between work and home life disappear.


Automated justice: striking the balance in injury claims

25 January 2022

No professional sector is immune from automation – even the law. However, the adoption of automated systems to settle routine injury claims raises a number of important ethical questions.


Conveyancers: are you afraid of outsourcing?

21 January 2022

For many years, outsourcing has been seen as a bit of a scary prospect within the conveyancing sector. But thanks to the stamp duty holiday, conveyancers are now realising some of the many benefits.


You win some, you lose some – class actions post Google

18 January 2022

In November, Google received two court rulings, through which it both closed and opened the door to class actions against it. So what do the decisions mean for future class actions?


Clinical negligence, a changing market – part 1

14 January 2022

The consolidation of law firms through merger and acquisition has resulted in fewer, but more sophisticated and expert clinical negligence practices.


How to set your law firm up for success in 2022

12 January 2022

At this time of year, law firms around the country are busy strategising and implementing plans for the coming 12 months. Forward-planning is a crucial part of a firm’s success, but where to start?


Are you ready to sign a personal guarantee to secure your indemnity insurance?

7 January 2022

Perhaps the most worrying trend we are seeing in the professional indemnity market is the increased scrutiny of the financial position of SME law firms and demand for personal guarantees.


How English law is failing Islamic communities and ethnic minorities

4 January 2022

There should be efforts to minimise the gap between the UK’s domestic laws and its citizens’ religious laws with a view to merging all the different laws into the English legal system.

← Older posts Page 54 of 142 Newer posts →

Blog


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.


Loading animation