Practice Management

An ambitious Scottish law firm has made its first move south of the border by acquiring a large conveyancing business as it looks to rapidly build a full-service offering in England.

A senior manager at law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer has failed in a claim that her stress, anxiety and depression constituted a disability.

BT is renewing and expanding its partnership with global managed services provider Factor, in a “complete synergy” which had allowed the telecoms giant to outsource “more complex problems”.

Law firms based in the UK are top of the legal world when judged by their environmental, social and governance performance, research has found.

It will be the law firms that embrace innovation which will maximise organic growth opportunities and create an offering that sets them apart from the competition, a new report has found.

Most female lawyers (84%) believe that gender pay equality will not be achieved until after they retire and that firms’ commitment is more about headlines than real change.

The executive chairman of Winn Group – one of the country’s largest personal injury firms – has described how the firm has moved into commercial litigation for cases worth less than £100,000.

Nine out of ten lawyers have experienced stress or burnout at some point in their professional lives but only a fifth felt supported by their firms when they did, according to new research.

There is increasing pressure on law firms to show their values in who they act for, and young lawyers should be part of the process of defining them, a seminar heard this week.

The proportion of smaller law firms saying that growth by merger or acquisition is more attractive following the pandemic has increased sharply, a report has found.