Given the economic issues with the old staff-up or send-out approach, in-house legal leaders operating in a new cost-controlled environment must find alternative solutions.

In September, the Californian State Legislature blocked alternative business structures, retaining the prohibition of non-lawyers ownership of law firms in America’s largest state.

When staff in organisations start using online services independently without following their in-house IT team’s approval process, those online services become ‘shadow IT’.

Despite the property market going through a significant period of development, with a healthy stream of innovation, the process of moving home is mired by reports of slow and difficult transactions.

We are close to four years on from the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s introduction of rules on transparency and it has announced it will be checking all firms’ websites in 2022.