All articles by Marialuisa Taddia – Page 9
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Solicitors' supporting cast
Many solicitors openly acknowledge their reliance on non-lawyers in building a successful practice. Yet that acknowledgement does not always translate into an enhanced standing for secretarial, administrative, paralegal and other non-legally qualified employees.
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A helping hand: sponsorship programmes
Corporations on both sides of the Atlantic are introducing formal sponsorship programmes to propel women and other under-represented groups into very senior roles. Law firms that want to boost diversity at the top of their organisations and improve their business performance should take note. In the US, notes Deborah Epstein ...
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Flexible working patterns
In the legal profession’s workaholic culture, achieving work/life balance has always been a struggle - and still is. The term ‘work/life balance’ has such negative connotations in private practice that some firms have banned it from their vocabulary. At Ashurst, for example, they refer to ‘work/life fit’. Speaking at the ...
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‘Pre-pack’ administrations rule changes face trouble
Businesses entering pre-packaged administrations (‘pre-packs’) have been grabbing headlines. Retailers Habitat UK, Alexon Group and Jane Norman are but a few high-profile examples. But there are examples in the legal sector too. Assets of top 50 law firm Halliwells were purchased by Hill Dickinson, HBJ Gateley Wareing and Barlow Lyde ...
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Environmental considerations are rising up the law firm management agenda
Environmental issues have steadily climbed up law firms’ agendas. As corporates seek to capitalise on both consumers’ growing awareness of the need to save the planet, and government incentives on the environment, solicitors, as part of their clients’ supply chain, are responding by boosting their own green credentials.
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Responding in the fight to keep the best lawyers
In such a tough economic climate, you would have thought assistants and associates would be keeping their heads down – and counting their blessings that they have a job at all. Not so. They’ve never been so demanding, claim some firms, and firms in turn ...
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Changing legal specialism
For some it is redundancy. For others the hallowed path towards partnership appears strewn with potholes. It may simply be a question of lifestyle. Whatever the motive, many lawyers are reshaping their careers, either by switching specialism, leaving private practice ...
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Law firms develop new strategies to stand out from the crowd
In Kingdom, a TV drama, Stephen Fry plays Peter Kingdom, a local solicitor with a natural human and personal touch, going out of his way to help the locals in a small town in Norfolk. This idealised portrayal of life as a solicitor could not be further from the world ...
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The debate about employment tribunals and the rise in claims
Reforms to employment law and the employment tribunal system did not feature in the 2010 Conservative election manifesto. But there was a clear commitment to reducing regulation of small businesses. In recent weeks, it has become clear this commitment has translated into controversial plans for substantial reform to tribunal procedures.