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ASA rejects personal injury advert complaint because consumers ‘now understand how claims work’
Wednesday, 8 April 2015The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected a complaint against a west country personal injury law firm, saying that consumers now have “a general awareness that to have a valid claim there would have to be some degree of fault or negligence by a third party”.
Tags: personal injury, TV advertising
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
Profits soar at National Accident Helpline as it aims beyond personal injury
Tuesday, 24 March 2015Legal lead generator National Accident Helpline today unveiled strong results for its first year as an AIM-listed business and indicated that it will continue to move beyond its core of personal injury to other areas of consumer law.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Express Solicitors poised for further acquisitions after £10m funding boost
Friday, 13 March 2015Express Solicitors, the Manchester personal injury firm, is poised to make further acquisitions after securing £10m funding from the Royal Bank of Scotland. It said the money allowed a focus on growing the business “without having to compromise” on other areas.
Tags: Alternative business structures, Express Solicitors, personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, Finance, Latest news, Practice Management
Carnage – is it avoidable?
Friday, 6 March 2015Many commentators are voicing their opinion and there does appear to be a growing consensus that 2015 is the year the devastating side of LASPO will fully show its face. Legal Futures last month reported a prediction of impending carnage in the personal injury (PI) market and it may well be true, but are there avenues that can be taken to mitigate the destructive nature of cash drying up on small-to-medium sized PI practices.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Blog
Assure Law targets personal injury with latest acquisition
Thursday, 12 February 2015Business consultancy Assure Law has bought a specialist rehabilitation service as it expands the range of services it offers to law firms, following its acquisition of HighStreetLawyer.com and Lawyers2you.
Tags: Assure Law, HighStreetLawyer, Lawyers2You, networks, personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
PI lawyers predict “carnage” in market
Thursday, 5 February 2015There could be “carnage” among personal injury (PI) firms this year as the full impact of the Jackson reforms and portal fee cuts finally hits home, lawyers have predicted.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
SME law firms “face the most threat” from new entrants, survey finds
Wednesday, 4 February 2015Small and medium-sized law firms “face the most threat” from new entrants and increased competition, a wide-ranging survey of the UK legal services market has found.
Tags: Alternative business structures, IRN Research, personal injury, SME law firms
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Act, Market monitor
“I want to dominate the market,” says entrepreneur as he secures £12m funding for clin neg ABS
Friday, 30 January 2015An entrepreneur has revealed plans to combine a claims management company, a consumer website and the clinical negligence department of a top 100 firm to form a market-dominating alternative business structure.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, clinical negligence, personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Market monitor, Outsourcing
New Quindell chairman attacked over share option “conflict of interest”
Wednesday, 14 January 2015Quindell was the centre of renewed criticism this week over the grant of over 8m in share options to Richard Rose, the AIM-listed company’s new non-executive chairman, whose appointment was announced on Monday.
Tags: corporate governance, personal injury, Quindell, share options
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news, Legal Services Act
Fast-growing Midlands firm becomes ABS
Monday, 12 January 2015DBS Law, a fast-growing general civil practice based in Birmingham, has become an alternative business structure as it looks to build on its dramatic growth over recent years.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news
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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.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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