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More than three-quarters of those responding to our law firm leaders survey said their most pressing business concern was recruiting staff, with over a third having difficulties retaining staff.

Firms can no longer expect clients to stay long term, and so should be ready to transfer clients out and onboard new ones continually. Simultaneously, the war for talent is hotting up.

Many of the financial planning firms we work with have assisted the COLPs of the firms they work with to look at what is important in a selected partner.

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.

After a seemingly slow start a decade ago, there has been an explosion of investment, awareness and new job opportunities in legal technology.

Tackling financial crime places a considerable burden of risk and compliance on conveyancers. But, while this can be frustrating, the need to combat the issues related to money laundering cannot be overstated