Gill’s Blog

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 [...]

According to Harvard’s Institute of Coaching 70% of those who receive professional coaching benefit in terms of improved performance, relationships and enhanced communication skills. Coaching can [...]

Will lawyers be made redundant due to AI? The answer to this is a guarded ‘yes’ - some lawyers will be when the tipping point is reached – we are not just there yet.

Following the Queen’s Speech certain parts of the 5AMLD have been introduced by Statutory Instrument The provisions in 5MLD will be legislated in ‘The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing [...]

Here comes the festive season hot on the heels of the general election. It is hard to feel particularly jolly this year with all the party manifestos falling short on some of the things lawyers [...]

Slater & Gordon commissioned a survey of 2,000 people to find out what people knew about law and lawyers. The results are staggering. According to Legal Futures 44% of those surveyed did not [...]

When I first started out in practice it was common for High Street firms to expect practitioners to turn their hand to many different areas of law – I did residential and commercial conveyancing [...]