Practice Management

Under the new dual code system arriving in November, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is clear that it expects law firm managers and their compliance officers to be introducing processes [...]

With the rise of digital marketing, social media has become a new tool to help drive potential private client instructions, referrals, brand awareness and recruitment. Clients also like to see [...]

Most firms still produce monthly management information in a very traditional way, showing the profit and loss account for the month and year to date and the month end balance sheet. While this [...]

It has finally been announced that the new SRA Accounts Rules are being adopted from 25 November this year (2019). This has come after months of speculation as to the exact adoption date which [...]

As many of you know, I suffer from inflammatory bowel disease which means I must be careful what I eat. I am intolerant of gluten, dairy and eggs. This makes life interesting when I am travelling [...]

In December 2018, high street bank Santander was fined nearly £33m for failing to pass on the assets of deceased customers to their personal representatives and beneficiaries. In some cases, said [...]

Are your clients getting the best out of their lawyer? I ask this not to have a dig at lawyers – after all, I am a solicitor – but to highlight consumers’ lack of awareness of the regulatory [...]

Practitioners still mention to me they have not completed their 16 hours of CPD this year even though we left these rules behind for good in October 2016. I wonder just how many people are [...]

Well-designed, secure technology can help private client solicitors to manage their clients’ affairs more efficiently and avoid some of the most common problems associated with carrying out [...]

Competition in the legal sector continues to increase. This competition has led to a constant downward pressure on the fees that lawyers can charge. While this is painful as it can quickly erode [...]