At a recent CLT session on this subject, the delegates – mostly heads of family departments outside of London – found the following concepts most valuable for developing a privately funded family law practice: Mind shift – from public service provider to profit generator a) Accept it’s not Legal Aid anymore – Read More
A recent article in The Lawyer (18 February 2013) focused on innovation in smaller law firms. I have summarised the ways in which the featured firms achieved their innovation: Anthony Collins (£14.4m, Birmingham) – Niche in social housing, health and social care, local government, education and faith communities. Flint Bishop (£9.4m, Derby) Read More
Last week, I presented a webinar for CLT on this subject. It was very well attended and there was some interesting discussion at the end. This built on the debate that had taken place on various LinkedIn discussion groups beforehand and as a result of the publicity surrounding the research Read More
At the beginning of February I released a survey into the price of divorce in conjunction with www.onlydads.org and www.onlymums.org The key findings from the research are as follows: 71% of those responding were male 50% had an average gross household income of between £25,000 and £100,000 55% said that the children lived Read More
The legal market – and family law in particular – is going through a great many changes. Despite there being over 115,000 divorces in the UK each year, Legal Aid is no longer available except for some very specialist areas of family law. There are now numerous web sites providing Read More
