Practice Management

Family lawyers should scrap billing targets and develop a new business model, a senior practitioner has said, while criticising the failure to continue pushing collaborative law.

A litigation PA who worked for a Kent law firm for 25 years has won her claim for constructive unfair dismissal over the “thoughtless and high-handed” way it moved her to the conveyancing department.

The introduction of a four-day week could work for law firms and make them “very attractive” to young lawyers, according to the boss of a lawtech company which has embraced the change.

Problems with reopening its London headquarters have “hindered the development” of listed law firm Ince’s business, chief executive Adrian Biles told investors yesterday.

The Court of Appeal has overturned a decision striking out parts of a claim brought by a solicitor against his former partner in a Middlesbrough law firm, increasing its value significantly.

A consultant-led dispersed law firm is using the offer of exit shares to help fuel rapid expansion. When the firm is sold, the proceeds will be divided between the partners based on billings.

The first law firms have joined a platform developed by virtual firm Carbon Law Partners, where they will operate as trading names under its umbrella alternative business structure.

A solicitor who claimed she was not offered a job after completing her training contract because she was pregnant has lost her discrimination claim in the employment tribunal.

A former equity partner of a City law firm has failed in his claim that he was not awarded a fair profit share in the last two years of his partnership.

A competitive bidding website saw a threefold increase in business last year, as solicitors and clients flooded online during the lockdowns, it has emerged.