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Show me the money - lawyers and financial awareness
An amateur astronomer with a decent telescope can, on a moonless night, gaze towards the heavens and just make out the faint green glow of the mysterious world where our arch-enemies, the accountants, are born (or perhaps grown in pods) and trained - ...
22 May 2013 | 11:01
Client power: why it is up to GCs and their budgets to drive real change in law
Much has been made of what you might call (only if you are a lazy blogger) DLA-gate. The story of the associates and their jolly email japes about bill padding. Except the jokes don't look so jolly now they have escaped the DLA-servers...
08 Apr 2013 | 09:53 | 1 comment
Growth is dead, part 7: pricing and the emergence of low-cost competitors
At the end of the last instalment in this series, I asked aloud whether we as lawyers are intellectually and emotionally capable of adapting to the new market landscape, suggested that adapting would require experimentation and - yes - failure, and no...
03 Apr 2013 | 16:05
Historical first as Supreme Court boots Iranian bank out of secret hearing
Extraordinary developments in the Supreme Court today as the court, for the first time in its history, conducted a secret hearing during which one of the parties, an Iranian Bank, was not allowed to take part. Full background to the case, Bank Mellat ...
22 Mar 2013 | 09:39
Flood defences - why lawyers should let the daily dam break and think long-term
"But whilst it is not a self-explanatory exercise, that does not mean in-house legal functions should not address the question: what can we do this year to improve on what we did last year and how do we do it?..."
07 Mar 2013 | 14:14
The blinkers come off - the impact of the horsemeat scandal on brand value
The horsemeat scandal will no doubt continue to unfold over the coming months, but for some of the affected companies, the harm done to their reputations may well prove fatal. The impact on business values will take many forms. For some it may be a sh...
27 Feb 2013 | 14:57
Trial by jury on trial - the fallout from the Vicky Pryce case
Whilst I was otherwise engaged, the media and blogosphere exploded yesterday with fallout from the jury discharge in the Vicky Pryce case. The Judge’s remarks that the jury had displayed, “absolutely fundamental deficits in understanding” predic...
21 Feb 2013 | 15:26 | 1 comment
Growth is dead, part 6: does fear of failure hinder innovation in law?
At the end of the last segment in this series, I opined that our industry needed to respond in creative and imaginative ways to the new market landscape, and that it would take "unswerving resolve" to do so effectively and successfuly. But I also w...
07 Feb 2013 | 14:15
The real rogues gallery - will corporate offenders avoid the spotlight in the 'middle-class' tax crackdown?
"To have a fair and effective policy on tax evasion, HMRC will need to use at least part of its enlarged budget to investigate egregious examples of significant tax evasion where the public interest is genuinely engaged - and to avoid any public perce...
25 Jan 2013 | 13:59 | 1 comment
No will for a bill? Bill of Rights Commission members speak out over internal strife
In March I complained that the Commission on a Bill of Rights should open up. Well, not long after after publication of the Commission's final report(s), two of the Liberal Democrat-appointed commissioners have given their insider perspectives of the ...
08 Jan 2013 | 14:57
Growth is dead, part 5: what law firms can learn from Procter & Gamble
Now well on our way into the Growth is Dead series, it's only fair to offer up what we hope are some constructive ideas on how to deal with this phenomenon going forward. But first, a quick recap of some of the things we've touched upon: • Fro...
06 Dec 2012 | 13:38 | 2 comments
News Group ordered to pay Coulson's legal costs - implications of the judgment
Yesterday's judgment by the Court of Appeal in Coulson v News Group Newspapers (NGN) is good news for those who have a legal expenses insurance policy which they wish to use to defend themselves against an allegation that they have committed a crimina...
29 Nov 2012 | 12:47
Top 10 CV tips for budding lawyers
I recently did a CV tips session at Reading University, and as a result have been reviewing around 20 CVs from the perspective of a future employer. Here are my top 10 CV tips: 1. Tell stories. Most graduate jobs don't actually need a CV plus cover...
26 Nov 2012 | 13:09
Growth is dead, part 4: why law firms face new pressure to innovate and streamline
For some time, I’ve been struggling with how to characterise in pithy short-hand what our industry has been experiencing since almost four years ago to the day when Lehman Brothers collapsed. How about Economy I and Economy II?
22 Nov 2012 | 15:53
A war on Judicial Review?
The Prime Minister is to “get a grip” on people forcing unnecessary delays to Government policy by cracking down on the “massive growth industry” of Judicial Review. David Cameron told business leaders today:
19 Nov 2012 | 13:23
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