Practice Management

The experience of the pandemic has given lawyers greater confidence in innovation and technology, leading to a “step change” in their use over the past three years, major research has found.

“Partnership is dying” as a model for new law firms, though it remains “an option”, a law firm management expert has said as he stressed the need for them to adopt the ‘agile’ methodology.

A law firm specialising only in contentious probate has secured £3.25m in private equity funding to boost expansion across the country, the fifth law firm to be backed by BGF.

Confidence among smaller law firms that they will grow in the coming year has fallen for the third year running and they are planning to increase their marketing efforts in response.

Private equity firm Blixt Group is looking at up to five more acquisitions to reach its target of building a £100m national legal services business, its chief executive has revealed.

The legal profession pays only “lip service” to diversity and “there is a lack of action or appetite to pursue meaningful change”, a report for the Legal Services Board has suggested.

The MAPD Group – a business bringing together local law firms – yesterday announced a double acquisition in the North-West ahead of “several” more deals later in the year.

National law firm TLT is relocating its Manchester office next summer to a net-zero office building with Europe’s “biggest green wall”.

The legal profession’s growing appetite for hiring career returners is opening up a wealth of opportunities for a talented group of lawyers who have “long been neglected”.

Three-quarters of law firms – and especially those at the smaller end of the market – would consider selling a percentage of their business to an external buyer, new research has revealed.