Archive

Through the looking glass: planning a technology-driven firm

Long-term strategy and investment is key to staying up to date with the changing legal marketplace and service delivery, says Damian Blackburn

Supervisors must live up to their title and accept responsibility

Even if you are honest, a dishonest partner or employee could sink your career and ruin your practice, says John Gould

Costs budgets are your business, not for judges to micromanage

Litigators are waiting anxiously for the outcome of the hourly rates review, but the judiciary is not interested in such arguments, says James Barrett

SRA announces appointment of new chair

Board will continue to focus on the 'programme of modernisation and liberalisation'

Beware the pitfalls of clients retaining consultants

When drafting consultancy agreements, remember to specify expectations, draw the lines and ensure that employment contract law doesn't cloud the service provision, says Jonathan TR Silverman

Crime update

Rebecca Meads discusses the latest on 'tax dodging', sentencing guidelines for financial crime and personal data rights

Are trainees truly wannabe solicitors or just bona fide dogsbodies for firms?

Have you been swept up by an opportunity without considering the calibre of what you are really being offered, asks Pippa Allsop

Residential property update

Practitioners are feeling the effects as their clients experience delays or difficulties in securing mortgages, says Glenda Ferneyhough