Practice Management

The outsourcing of marketing activity has become a common feature of many law firms that handle claims-related work – a tacit acceptance perhaps that attracting clients requires specialist skills which some lawyers simply do not have.

The founder of a new family law firm has said she works a four-day week and will be recruiting staff to work in the same way. The “emotionally draining” nature of the work made it important.

Law firms are not responding to employees’ need for support with mental health and wellbeing, while those working flexibly are recording more hours than they did before the pandemic.

A solicitor who ran his law firm in a “shambolic fashion”, taking on more than 100 new cases when it should have been in the process of closing down, has been suspended for three months.

A solicitor has been ordered to pay a paralegal over £30,000 after an employment tribunal found he discriminated against her once she became pregnant.

There is huge scope for smaller law firms to improve their ESG performance, while all firms should have policies on which clients they will and will not work for.

Global law firm Allen & Overy has become the first law firm to adopt an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT to help speed up the work of more than 3,500 lawyers.

More than six out of 10 lawyers (62%) have experienced burn-out as a result of their work in the last year, a survey has found.

A “significant proportion” of large law firms are investing in content or ‘inbound’ marketing schemes that “simply do not work as they should” and could even be damaging their reputation.

An alternative business structure which launched as a specialist conveyancing firm with three staff in March 2019 now has more than 100 in multiple practice areas as it opens a fifth office.