Following on from recent news regarding facebook’s poor Q318 results, Jon Tipple, Chief Strategy Officer, Worldwide at FutureBrand, discusses further bad news for the firm. Facebook’s disappointing Q3 results – despite strong earnings, the social media giant failed to reach analysts’ estimates on revenue, daily active users and monthly active users – reflect some difficult […]
Following the disclosure of the ‘Paradise Papers’ in 2017, an onslaught of misguided moral righteousness resulted, villainising the wealthy for using perfectly legal means of investing their wealth in offshore corporations in order to achieve tax efficiency. In the process, many august journals blurred the lines between entirely legal tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion. […]
When the Statute of Frauds 1677 stipulated that contracts must exist in writing and also bear a signature, the practice soon became commonplace. But the traditional written signature may soon become a thing of the past: The Law Commission has decided that, for many legal documents, it can be replaced with an electronic signature ('e-signature') […]
Yesterday UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond made a number of announcements and updates in the Autumn Budget 2018. You can see all things Autumn Budget and several summaries on the BBC website here. In our most in depth Your Thoughts piece to date, Lawyer Monthly rounds up the country’s leading experts in a variety of sectors, […]
Authored by Fraser MacLean, Executive Legal Search & Management Consultant at MacLean Legal Search, the piece below shines a light on the actual revenue and profits of the London offices of some of the leading US Law Firms. Profits remain the main indicator of a company’s health and success. Here in the UK, we can check […]
National Pro Bono Week started in 2001 to recognise the pro bono contribution made by the legal profession. Building on its success, an exciting new initiative launches on 29 October: Justice Week sponsored by the Law Society, the Bar Council and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx). It unites the legal profession to raise […]
What are the possible tax reporting issues that crop up with Smart Contracts? Below, Jimmy Royer, Principal and Alan G. White, Managing Principal, at Analysis Group, Inc., conclude that the SEC and IRS will need to develop different monitoring approaches, frameworks and guidance for private blockchain systems that will most likely be used. As new […]
The collapse of Universal Wealth Management last week has caused a stir among the general public but for those working within the legal profession it was more a question of when, not if, the firm would fold. Elizabeth Young, partner at Roythornes Solicitors, shares the lessons to be learnt from the scandal. Universal Wealth Management […]
As more people rely on their phones and the Internet to get legal help after accidents and injuries, it's more important than ever to stay up on the latest digital marketing trends. However, as Tom Desmond, Co-Founder of ApricotLaw, explains below, some of these practices can hurt your law firm’s image and leave you with […]
Free movement of EU workers has been the cornerstone of UK-EU relations for many years. Below Lawyer Monthly hears from Rahul Batra at Hudson McKenzie on the potential future of low skilled worker in a post-Brexit world. Several hundred thousand low-skilled workers from EU countries are employed each year in jobs predominantly in cleaning, hospitality […]
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