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BigHand named Company of the Year in the 2023 Business Intelligence Group awards
The Business Intelligence Group today announced the winners of the 2023 BIG Awards for Business with BigHand winning the Company of the Year category. This follows BigHand’s award win last week for Workflow Management Platform of the Year at the 4th annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards
Monetary incentives to cut planning application timescales is an encouraging step in the right direction
The Chancellor’s announcement of some reform to our ailing planning application process will be positively received across the board by the property industry. Whilst this is largely focused on infrastructure, it paves the way for more reform in the near term by the current Government.
Selling or merging your legal practice
As Legal Practice M&A specialists, AJ Chambers understand the importance and gravity of planning the sale or merger of your practice.
How people management drives success for law firms
The success of a firm isn’t solely determined by its legal prowess. It’s also influenced significantly by how well it manages its most valuable asset: its people
Law firms must improve DEI efforts through objective work allocation or risk losing clients
According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the UK, only 18% of the law firm lawyer population is made up of ethnic lawyers and only 5% are disabled, compared to 14% in the overall UK workforce. With 85% of firms reporting greater pressure from clients to improve their diversity, equity and inclusion, does the dial need to move towards DEI to retain clients?
How your invoices could be costing you money
Running a successful law firm can be challenging. However, what many law firms overlook is how their invoicing process could be hurting their clients’ satisfaction levels. A bad invoicing process can lead to significant delays, lost revenue, and ultimately, loss of clients.
October 2023 data breach roundup
Various data breaches took place in October, with organisations from a range of industries being guilty of a number of serious incidents.
Far from ‘fixed’ – changes to Fixed Recoverable Costs continue
While most clinical negligence cases still remain outside the Fixed Recoverable Cost (FRC) regime following the broad expansion that was introduced at the start of this month, it doesn’t look like they will escape much longer.
How Clio helped Tenet Law become a 7-figure law firm
Currently, 41% of all crime in the UK is fraud. As Arun Chauhan, founder of Tenet Compliance & Litigation (also known as Tenet Law) explains, fraud generates complex responses from victims, “emotions are heightened because you’ve been wronged.”
Covid loan repayment forcing law firms into administration
Many businesses took out government-backed loans, such as the Bounce Back Loans Scheme (BBLs) and the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan scheme, to help them through the Covid-19 crisis.
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Mind the (justice) gap: Why are RTAs going up but claims still down?
The gap between the number of road traffic accident injuries and the number of motor injury claims continues to widen, according to the latest government data.
Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
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