Dick Jennings
- Opinion
Solicitors: know your own strength
It is time for the profession to wake up to the fact that ‘solicitor’ is one of the world’s best legal brands and start to market it accordingly.
- News
Email ‘bugbear’
A recent Gazette drew attention to the writer’s ‘bugbear’ with emails - that many senders of them fail to quote his reference.
- News
Hourly fee charging is under fire but it drives efficiency and quality
by Dick Jennings, a practising solicitor and member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & SupplyThere is growing condemnation among in-house counsel of hourly fee charging. Private practice lawyers cower, meekly agreeing or asserting that they have been against it all along.
- News
Sole practitioner survivor
The extinction of the sole practitioner has been prophesied for so many years now that the prophets of doom should by now be feeling a little self-conscious. Your own pages have seen some wonderfully confident predictions of disaster in the recent tough round of PII renewals.