Far more matter mobility is taking place nowadays, and that this is a trend, not a phase. Since it can cause a significant administrative burden to fall on firms, they should try to minimise the impact.

My, how Ebenezer Scrooge’s fortunes had changed in the years since the ghostly visitations had left him clinging to a tattered bed-curtain, pleading for absolution.

A French court ruled recently that you don’t have to be ‘fun’ at work. It shines a spotlight on post-pandemic work culture and whether law firms are putting the pressure on for employees to ‘have fun’.

As I travel or Zoom across the UK, talking to law firm managing partners about their growth plans, top of their acquisition wish list are boutique law firms.

I have often felt that solicitors deem ‘marketing’ somewhat of a dirty word. A word perhaps considered by the profession to be more linked to the other mistrusted expression, ‘salesy’.