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
There were four research reports to help us understanding General Counsel (in-house lawyers) published recently. Each drew out some surprising findings: Nabarro’s third annual general counsel report (surveying 100 GCs from FTSE listed and large private companies) indicated that 75% were keen to receive further training on influencing. GCs from Kellogg, Misys and Sony Read More
