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Virtual against traditional: contrasting legal aid business models

Thursday, 11 March 2010 In December, Adam Makepeace, practice director at Duncan Lewis, compared his company’s way of delivering legal aid services with other models of del...
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How legal process outsourcing is changing the legal landscape

Thursday, 25 February 2010 In a canteen in a business district on the outskirts of New Delhi, soft chatter is interrupted by the screech of seats being dragged across a tiled fl...

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Do solicitors value their reputation as a marketing tool?
Jon Hepburn
Tuesday, 09 March 2010

The following statement was made to me by a solicitor: ‘Clients often do not fully understand what they are buying, hence any client review is meaningless.’ I take the opposite view...

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Making the most of web enquiry sources
Alastair Moyes, Marketlaw
Wednesday, 03 March 2010

As an independent business working on marketing with solicitors around the country, we have to be careful to remain independent. This independence allows us to assess marketing and promotional opportunities...

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Time to embrace back-office outsourcing
Rasik Kotecha
Monday, 01 March 2010

The term ‘outsourcing’ is hardly new to the legal world: there has been much discussion over several years about legal process outsourcing (LPO)...

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