Richard Cohen

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    Identity check

    08 April 2013

    If a new client instructs me on the sale of a property and I have not acted for that person before, then in addition to the normal ID checks and due diligence, I can recommend asking the would-be client if they can tell me in what year they purchased and ...

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    Employment and age-old problem

    2010-07-29T00:00:00

    I was very upset to read the letter, titled 'Too old for the legal profession', in which a 59-year-old solicitor said he had been told that he is on the ‘scrapheap’ and unemployable. What on earth are firms thinking? What a fantastic opportunity to employ someone who is likely to ...

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    Could the ‘Freemium’ model work in legal services?

    2010-07-15T00:00:00

    Twenty-first-century businesses are making vast sums of money by charging their customers nothing. This is the paradox at the heart of Chris Anderson’s new book Free, the Future of a Radical Price, which argues that new technologies are causing production and distribution costs to plummet.