All Law firm & practice management articles – Page 69
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News
Summit: client communications ‘routinely intercepted’
Government snooping threatening the most cherished of human rights.
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Summit: midmarket firms told to cede power to non-lawyers
Firms in the ‘squeezed middle’ must deploy wider expertise to boost profits, conference told.
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Trowers applies for Malaysia licence
Firm hopes to become first qualified foreign law firm following market liberalisation.
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Profits slip as reforms hit Irwin Mitchell
Expanding ABS blames law reform and continued investment for lower pre-tax profits.
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Alarm at plan to relax separate business rule
Law Society warns SRA proposals will increase number of unregulated firms to the detriment of consumers.
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Norfolk firm ‘reclaims independence’ from QualitySolicitors
Clapham & Collinge says time is right to promote a local brand after four years with QS.
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Freshfields will be next to ‘north-shore’ – reports
Magic circle firm understood to be seeking 100,000 sq ft of space in central Manchester.
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Feature
Support centres: our friends in the north
Near-shoring is growing in popularity as law firms seek to cut their wage bills and property overheads.
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Economic slump was a wake-up call for lawyers
Barclays’ head of professional services says firms have learned lessons.
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Clients spurning national brands as market booms
UK legal services market worth £29.3bn in 2013, says annual review.
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Feature
How to: get a grant
How can law firms get their hands on government money to boost their businesses and provide coaching?
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MoJ asks for feedback on digital issues
Solicitors are being asked to report problems they encounter using digital devices such as smartphones in the criminal justice system.
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Opinion
The road less travelled
Law firms are too easily discouraged from breaking free from the crowd when it comes to marketing.
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Education specialist and AIDS adviser dies at 68
Tributes paid to former Eversheds and Wedlake Saint solicitor Timothy Costello.
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‘Native’ Silicon Valley firm heads to London
Technology and life sciences specialist Cooley opens its first office in Europe.
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US moves to liberalise are ‘just the beginning’
Washington state bar also proposing allowing non-lawyers to own stakes in law firms.
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Feature
Australia: extracting value
Australia’s mining boom helped to entice firms from the northern hemisphere. But while the legal services market has lost some of its lustre, local alliances are helping international firms do more business there.
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Opinion
The legal year ahead
Alternative business structures? Mergers? Professional indemnity insurance? What will be the hot topics in 2015?