New legal ombudsman Adam Sampson gives his first interview

Thursday, 02 September 2010 Adam Sampson is the first to acknowledge that his new job as legal ombudsman is potentially a poisoned chalice. One of the main catalysts of the Legal Services Act (LSA), which brought his organisation into being, was (as he puts it) ‘the woeful record on complaints-handling [of] the Legal Complaints Service and predecessor bodies’. The former ...
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Could the iPad revolutionise the way law firms do business?

Thursday, 29 July 2010 Like several thousand other people, Lee Ranson, managing partner at Eversheds, bought an Apple iPad on 28 May, the day it went on sale. ‘We were converts,’ he says. Unlike many proud early owners, however, he saw the much-talked-about handheld computer not as an executive toy, but as a key component of a corporate IT strategy. Within the next f...

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What litigators need to know about the forensic investigation process

Thursday, 22 July 2010 In today’s electronic world, where filing cabinets of information can be copied onto a device small enough to swallow, litigators are incr...

PII – why a large number of firms will be seeking a new insurer

Thursday, 15 July 2010 When the profession ditched the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF), a compelling reason for the move was that many good firms were paying for t...