Cultivating talent by Jane Pritchard, TV Edwards

This blog post was also featured as a column in the July 2016 issue of Legal Practice Management magazine. To read the issue in full, download LPM magazine.  It’s an important debate for SME firms – do homegrown staf reign supreme, or is the investment in training too great and buying in speciality the way to go? Either […]

What price exclusivity? by Janine Parker, Paragon LawSelect

This blog post was also featured as a column in the September 2016 issue of Legal Practice Management magazine. To read the issue in full, download LPM magazine. It’s that wonderful time of year when the annual bombardment of brokers begins on your never-silent telephones. All of them can “carry out a full market exercise” for you that will, […]

Robot mores by Damien Behan, Brodies

This article was also featured as an opinion piece in the December 2016 issue of Briefing. To read the issue in full, download Briefing.  Inspired by the Fringe Festival that lands here in Edinburgh ever summer, I was tempted to call this column “Aye, Robot” – concerned, as it is, with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in law firms. […]

Managing the future by Edward O’Rourke, Ashtons Legal

This blog post was also featured as a column in the December 2016 issue of Legal Practice Management magazine. To read the issue in full, download LPM magazine.  In his book, Strategy and the Fat Smoker, David Maister said: “The ways of thinking and behaving that help lawyers excel in their profession may be the very things that […]