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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.

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.

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.

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.

Technology is designed to disrupt the workplace and so change management and leadership are needed to see its appropriate and most effective implementation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Over the Christmas break while relaxing, I decided it would be a perfect time to catch up on a few stories from the legal sector to see how the profession was coping.