Practice management – Page 9
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Dealing with partner departures
The experience of a tricky partner’s departure can help to define a firm’s culture and market reputation.
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Independents: Starting over
Typified as ‘lean, grown-up and sophisticated’, independent law firms are setting up shop at a record rate.
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Partnership agreements: Lateral hires and restraint of trade
How far can a law firm go to protect its business from the threat of team defections?
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Lawtech workshop: In your own defence
In the second instalment of a regular Gazette feature, Peter Wright cites the NHS and Royal Navy in arguing that your old IT system might not be as safe as you think.
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Law management: Law Society reveals plans for career improvements
The Law Society must go further than help solicitors meet basic ‘competence’ requirements, providing services to help members develop and progress their careers, Society president Robert Bourns told the annual Law Management Section conference last month.
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Law management: Fire your law firm’s misfits within weeks, urges ex-John Lewis boss
Efforts by law firms to stand out by defining their ‘values’ and purpose commonly fail through lack of management commitment, the former head of customer service at iconic department store chain John Lewis told the conference.
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Law management: Cyber attacks ‘keeping partners awake at night’
Ransomware features in half of all cybercrime reports to the police where a business suffers an attack on its computer system, a senior City police officer told the conference.
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Law management: Exam-like grades for client satisfaction helped turn around Oxford firm Darbys
‘A tower of turnover falls over.’
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Law management: Devon practice ditches ‘drab’ marketing cliches
Law firm marketing should lead on themes which matter to the firm and its people rather than the selling of ‘hard law’, a prize-winning regional law firm advised.
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Law management: Firms’ disability claims
Law firms are disproportionately represented in claims related to disability discrimination and workplace health, according to a niche law firm specialising in such claims.
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India: Office politics
India will be one of our most important trade partners post-Brexit, but foreign firms are still not allowed to open offices there.
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Developing picture
Solicitors no longer have to count their CPD hours. Grania Langdon-Down reports on how this is affecting training and shaping the market for providers
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Society spotlight: Mentoring scheme
As the Law Society’s mentoring scheme opens to new applications, Eduardo Reyes looks at different models and their benefits
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Employee ownership: stake holders
Law firms slow to embrace employee ownership schemes are missing a trick.
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South Korean legal market: life and Seoul
South Korea is taking longer than expected to liberalise its legal market and Brexit has complicated matters further.
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Women in law: City limits
City firms are hiring women in record numbers – and then losing them. Detailed research has uncovered reasons why.
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How to: attract external investors
Solicitors are naturally wary of outside investment, but it is a day-to-day reality for a growing number of firms.
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Transparency of legal services
Small businesses and the public are still struggling to access lawyers – here’s what the SRA is doing to share information on prices and firms.
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Corporate social responsibility – community spirit
The reasons why law firms commit to corporate social responsibility vary, but what the best initiatives share is a focus on results.
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Second coming of costs bill offers new hope
Latest Hutton Committee bill of costs can be an effective tool in resolution of disputes.