Gill’s Blog

All solicitors need to have a personal development plan (PDP) since the training rules changed in November 2018. Out went the 16 hours of CPD per annum and in came a more reflective approach to [...]

It is much easier to make decisions when you have not got to wade through a mountain of stuff to find that vital piece of paper, but you have a system to get right to it. It is also so much [...]

Has your e-mail traffic increased during lock down? Certainly, probate practitioners are experiencing a sad surge in work because of the number of excess deaths during the pandemic and with it [...]

I have long been interested in what software is available for those of us drafting Wills. Some 30 years ago I took a look at Express Wills. I asked one of my team to try it out and she offered me [...]

Just to think of all the different connections we used to make in a day with other humans and to see them all reduced to 2D on Zoom is depressing but at least we can continue to function. Perhaps [...]

The future of work in general, and some areas of law in particular, is uncertain. Historically, there have always been peaks and troughs in different areas of law with recessions and booms, [...]

With September always comes the feeling of a new start – schools have indeed gone back, and Universities and Colleges will do soon. But in this rather damaging year for business, at the end of [...]

LawSkills Monthly Digest is a tool which summarises all the key developments over the previous few weeks in the areas of Wills, Probate, Trusts, Tax and Elderly Client and drops a full report [...]

Changes which are not of our making are challenging because we do not have control of the timing of implementation and have our own workloads to consider. A change which is core to our services, [...]

The Daily Telegraph recently reported that the instructions for Wills and LPAs was up 30% due to the pandemic. Many practitioners have been grappling with the best way to help these new clients [...]