All In Business blog articles – Page 5
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Opinion
Window shopping for lawyers
Solicitors behind the buying and selling of houses need to be publicly celebrated.
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Opinion
How to market and work part-time
Simply being smarter with your time means that a career break or reduced hours do not need to limit your marketing and business development activities.
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Google and the content conundrum
Becoming more visible online is difficult for solicitors – but outsourcing is not the only way to achieve increased hits.
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Cross-selling legal services
Love or loathe consumer brands, you should not ignore them if you want to succeed with existing clients.
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Flexible working – confidence in your competence
Once your colleagues have confidence in your judgement - and not just your availability - flexibility could be easier to attain.
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Opinion
The solicitors’ new year
With unique pressures shaping the profession, maybe we should have our own calendar.
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Legal aid hiring headache
The recruitment world is buoyant, but for legal aid lawyers problems persist.
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Beware the ‘drizzle-maker’ partners
Law firms’ marketing departments should work closely with new lateral hires to ensure business success.
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City failing in hunt for talent
School statistics demonstrate that City firms do not have to look far to find high-achieving young people.
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The labour market isn’t working
Law firms and legal departments that are in a position to be more imaginative when hiring will end up with better people.
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Fly-fisher’s guide to business development
When trying to win new clients, preparation and patience are required.
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The power of negative thinking
Taking a sceptical view undermines nothing, says Kathleen Hall.
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Opinion
Christmas and flexible working
There is plenty of flexible working around Christmas time – and this has lessons for the rest of the year.
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Opinion
A senior partner’s Christmas countdown
David Pickup runs us through his exhaustive list of tasks to complete before the big holiday.
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Banking on solid foundations
The relationship between SGI Legal and NatWest underlines the importance of making funding decisions within agreed timescales.
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China, Cameron and sausages
A Devon food producer was on the list of those on a trade trip to China. But where were the law firms?
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Flexible working: not just ‘a woman thing’
The attitude that ‘home is for wimps’ benefits no one.