Practice Management

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.

A North-East practice has taken the unusual step of turning to poetry and jazz drumming in a bid to stand out from the law firm crowd, with a campaign called ‘Fearlessly Solving’.

The Bar Council and northern law firm Ward Hadaway have become the latest in a lengthening list of legal victims of cyber-attacks.

The pandemic has taught many small and medium-sized law firms about the benefits of delivering services that suit their clients, rather than themselves, Law Society research has found.

National law firm TLT is moving next month to what could be the most environmentally friendly solicitors’ office in the UK, with ‘air-purifying’ paint and lifts which generate electricity when braking.

The pandemic has not brought about necessary cultural change in the legal profession, meaning lawyers and their firms need to fundamentally reset their values.