Intapp recently announced results from a recent survey designed to evaluate how law firms are differentiating to enable growth. The 2018 Law Firm Growth Enablement Survey, conducted in partnership with Calibrate Legal, surveyed marketing and business development professionals at firms ranging in size from less than 50 attorneys to more than 2,500 attorneys in order […]
New research from Acritas reveals the dramatic growth of the Big Four’s legal brands among alternative legal service providers. This Index has been established to identify the strongest brands within this new and rapidly growing part of the broader global legal industry. Senior in-house counsel were asked to name organizations that provide legal services, excluding […]
The Law Commission of England and Wales has announced that electronic legal documents should be considered just as valid as wet signatures for UK property. The news comes amidst The Department of Health moving forward with abolishing the need for doctors’ signatures for paper prescriptions. The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said this will improve the delivery […]
Authored by Fraser MacLean, Executive Legal Search & Management Consultant at MacLean Legal Search, the below piece looks at partner movement (churn) and retention at the London offices of some of the largest US Law Firms by revenue since 2015. It follows on from Fraser’s recently published detailed summary on the same group over the […]
The value of offshore M&A deals in the first half of 2018 nearly matched the total recorded for the entirety of 2017, according to a report released by Appleby. The latest edition of Offshore-i, an Appleby report that provides data and insight on merger and acquisition activity in the major offshore financial centres, focuses on […]
This week Lawyer Monthly gains expert insight into the subject of how work bonuses are treated by courts post separation. Julie Julie-Ann Harris, Partner and Head of Family at Coffin Mew, delves into the particulars of court treatment of bonuses acquired with spousal support and treatment of a bonus as a capital asset without no […]
We all get nervous at an interview. Whether it’s meeting your other half’s parents, going for a new job, or trying to close an important business deal, getting off on the right foot is crucial. For a law interview, the pressure often feels insurmountable. Did you know that, on average, you have just seven seconds […]
There is a growing ‘sex-for-rent’ scandal currently brewing in the UK and beyond. Increasingly depressing is the proliferation and normalisation of this in many circles. Expert Housing and social welfare barrister Nicholas Nicol from One Pump Court provides Lawyer Monthly his take on the issue. On 10th September 2018 an investigation by the BBC programme […]
Below Lawyer Monthly hears from Nicola Sharp, of award-winning business crime solicitors Rahman Ravelli, who explains why recent fraud statistics cannot be ignored by anyone in business who wants to prevent it happening to them. It appears that we may be in the midst of an epidemic of fraud cases coming to court. Research carried […]
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