LPM June 2018: Power Play

Download your FREE copy now   This month:LPM magazine finds out what makes SME firms competitive. Special supplement:Unite to thrive – Our friends at Tikit give the lay of the land on how law firms can benefit from an ecosystem of solutions. Feature:Guest writer Richard Parnham examines how law firms in the vast SME market can make themselves heard. Law firm […]

LPM April 2018: Deregulation – The right direction?

This month, LPM magazine finds out how SME firms might take advantage of deregulation Download your FREE copy now Feature: Solicitors will soon be allowed to work for unregulated firms while retaining their professional title – will these reforms tempt law firms to ditch practice-wide regulation? Richard Parnham reports Hard knocks: Richard Clark, COO at Manchester-based CFG Law, on […]

Client centricity – LPM magazine, December 2017 – Love your clients

This month, LPM magazine delves into the need to greater client centricity in the legal industry and how firms can put clients at the centre of everything they do Download your FREE copy now Feature: Law firms traditionally operated in a seller’s market and were built to benefit lawyers – which might explain why so […]

A very personal attack – LPM magazine, May 2017 – Can PI survive?

This month, LPM delves into the impact of the potential new regulatory changes set to hit legal. Download your FREE copy now Feature: With the latest personal injury reforms looming like the sword of Damocles, we ask PI legal leaders whether they will mean the end for road traffic accident cases – or whether firms can […]

Partners in planning by Janine Parker, Paragon LawSelect

This article was also featured as a column in the February 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM.  With the regulatory and legal landscape in a constant state of evolution, what services should you expect from your insurance broker, and how have these expanded over the past decade? Traditionally, a broker will represent your risk in the […]

Law firms, protect thyselves by Janine Parker, Paragon LawSelect

This article was also featured as a column in the Februrary​ 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. For the majority of law firms the compliance burden is one that increases year on year. Outcomes focused regulation puts firms under pressure to prove results without always providing a sufficient framework within which to operate. […]

Counting the cost of courts by Nigel Kidwell, Paragon LawSelect

This blog post was also featured as a column in the March 2016 issue of Legal Practice Management magazine. Substantial increases in court issue fees have remained the subject of press and professional focus. Since March 2015 any claim to a value of between £10,000 and £200,000 attracts an issue fee of 5% of that value. Fees […]

Controlling interests by Nigel Kidwell, Paragon LawSelect

This article was also featured as a column in the May 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. Lawyers rarely give evidence. I suspect that most of us who have say the same thing: it isn’t the most enjoyable of pastimes. It is, though, sometimes unavoidable. One such occasion was just last month, when […]

Taking the cyber challenge by Janine Parker, Paragon LawSelect

This article was also featured as a column in the June 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM. The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is fast approaching. The requirements to comply with this new legislation are both vast and complex. What are the implications for the legal profession? Are firms aware of […]

Lawyers versus tech? by Nigel Kidwell, Paragon Law Select

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.  The ‘hire’ of Ross, the world’s first artificially intelligent lawyer, has recently been making the headlines. But delegation by human lawyers to software is by no means new. Many of […]