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Ronnie Fox
- Opinion
BOOK REVIEW: From Russia with love
The best lawyers are dispassionate even when responding to their clients’ needs for support and empathy.
FeaturePII special: Cutting negligence claims
Insurers should come clean on specific behaviours giving rise to claims.
OpinionSending the right messages
A surfeit of emails need not clog up the solicitor’s working day – here’s how to save time.
- Opinion
In defence of the hourly rate
The real opportunity ‘to cement a better client relationship from the start’ is by lawyers using their experience to give accurate estimates of fees.
- News
Consumer help
The chair of the Legal Services Board, David Edmonds, has written to all approved regulators urging them to do more to help consumers play a ‘more active, empowered role’ in the legal services market, by providing clear ‘performance information’.
- News
Consumer help
The chair of the Legal Services Board, David Edmonds, has written to all approved regulators urging them to do more to help consumers play a ‘more active, empowered role’ in the legal services market, by providing clear ‘performance information’.
- News
PII prescription from Society?
The 8 April Gazette contains the president’s invitation to submit suggestions as to how the Law Society could help solicitors. Here is mine.
- News
Keep out of politics
The Law Society says that government plans to make it easier for small businesses to dismiss employees will not help those businesses to grow. The Society’s Employment Law Committee chairman’s views to this effect were quoted in a Society press release.
- News
Compliance overload is stifling law firms
by Ronnie Fox, City solicitor specialising in partnership and employment law at Fox Lawyers
- News
Putting clients first
In her article about mediation, Kate Durcan writes: ‘One might think there is a conflict between being a lawyer, where the object is to generate fee income, and conducting mediation, where the goal is to seek early resolution and save costs. Not so, say lawyer-mediators.’ (see [2008] Gazette, 18 September, ...