Guest comment: A call to arms for the Bionic Lawyer
‘I am you. I am your colleagues. I am what your customers have always dreamed of. I am The Bionic…
Innovation
Overview: Facing fear
‘When you’ve got your mouth wrapped around the firehose, it becomes really hard to step back and design better ways…
Comment: Remembering Mr Disruption – How Clayton Christensen became the legal industry’s North Star
Barely into 2020 and news came that probably the most influential business thinker of the last 20 years had passed…
Remembering Mr Disruption – The innovator’s legacy for the profession
Barely into 2020 and news came that probably the most influential business thinker of the last 20 years had passed…
The vision thing – Sizing up the big issues set to shape law through the 2020s
The last decade emerged with the shockwaves of the banking crisis still making themselves felt on the profession. Having just…
Legal secretaries and support staff most at risk as industry loses up to 35,000 jobs by 2027
Legal secretaries and support staff will be the most affected by a decline in legal sector jobs in the next…
Foreign giants combine to enter UK training market as radical education shake-up looms
Australia’s leading legal training outfit is to team up with a major US player to enter the UK market ahead…
Applying the brakes – the legal chiefs helping fast-growth firms to mature
Two ear-piercing siren blasts ring out across the Canary Wharf HQ of fintech unicorn Revolut. ‘May I have your attention…
‘Kirkland is a raw, Darwinian force’ – LB’s take on the pre-Brexit City law market
On occasion, they let the head of Legal Business take a break from the glamorous job of proofing features to…
‘An incredible opportunity’: DWF flexes New Law arm with BT managed services contract
DWF has landed its first major post-IPO client win after securing a five-year managed legal services mandate for BT’s insurance…
NRF hires the mind behind Barclays radical panel shake-up to launch legal ops consulting arm
Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) is making an ‘offensive move’ against the Big Four on legal operations consulting with the hire of…
Moment of truth: New Law champion Axiom unveils float plans but break up of its business raises doubts
Axiom making good on long-trailed plans to float will be a milestone for New Law. Thomas Alan assesses if the…
We have the technology – Re-engineering a law firm
Hamish McNicol, Legal Business: What are the changes people have made in their business in the last 18 months that…
Comment: The great distraction – The innovation bandwagon has hobbled law’s market forces
I used to believe the UK legal profession was more imaginative than it got credit for – now I find…
Law firm tech: Turning the lights on
What do the individuals responsible for putting together the tech behind Lady Gaga’s concerts, a creative executive of ER and…
Legal technology sponsored briefing: Successful law firms in the digital age
Derek Southall of The Intuity Alliance/Hyperscale Group assesses how successful law firms are adapting to the new digital reality…
The technology debate: Ctrl+Alt+Delete
With alternative legal services arms at Global 100 law firms in full swing, and innovation and technology experts striving to…
The great distraction – The innovation bandwagon has hobbled market forces
I used to believe the UK legal profession was more imaginative than it got credit for – now I find…
No free lunch – Will law firm IPOs be the next big thing?
For years it could, just about, be ignored. But no longer. The UK’s largest practices are being forced to consider…
‘It’s a marriage of convenience’: Gordon Dadds to make its big splash as Ince merger talks intensify
Gordon Dadds has emerged as the unlikely rescuer to ailing Ince & Co, with the two outfits in merger discussions…