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Whilst it may be counterintuitive to many, there are more PI law firms wanting to buy than to sell. It has become a seller’s market that is even stronger given the high demand during the pandemic.

If you were to find yourself on a surgeon’s operating table, on a plane or back in the classroom, you would be in the hands of a professional whose ability had been independently checked in the last five years.

Criminal defence firms (particularly SMEs) are unlikely to survive after Covid-19 unless the government considers additional financial measures to those currently available.

Recent research estimated the wills and probate market as worth £1.3bn and found that 12% of those completing a will did it themselves without any professional help.

Many managing partners will, I’m sure, now be breathing a huge sigh of relief because they’ve achieved homeworking for so many of their staff, so quickly and with relative ease.

When we come out of the current crisis period, you will need to be ready to take on the challenges that a post-coronavirus world will present, one of which will be how you can operate more effectively online.

Despite decades of multi-million pound investments in technology, have actual case loads/productivity improved at the same rate as the system complexity or spend? Covid-19 allows us to think differently.

What are the dynamics now at play in the legal sector and how must law firms adapt in order to survive the lockdown and prepare themselves to thrive again as the economic storm clouds start to lift?

If 2019 was the year that legal tech boomed on the investment side, we predict that 2020 will be the year this tech is adopted en masse by lawyers themselves.

I’m sure the past four weeks in particular have been the most difficult faced by most businesses – no matter how big or small, no matter what line of work.