Lawyer Tech – Understanding Technology for Lawyers and Law Firms – Matt Farrington – The Law Chat Series – 18 May 2021

In this episode of The Law Chat series, Simon Tupman chats with Matt Farrington from Juno Legal about technology for lawyers and law firms. You can watch the full episode by clicking here or on the video below:…

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Trust: The Missing Ingredient in Pricing – Part 3 (first published on Validatum 4 March 2021)

In the last instalment of his series on trust in pricing, Richard Burcher looks at common things clients do which erodes the trust between them and a law firm. In part one, Richard Burcher suggested that one of the single…

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The LMS Financial Benchmarking Survey 2021 has launched

The LMS Financial Benchmarking Survey 2021 has now been launched and presents financial performance data on the financial year from 31 March 2019 to 30 April 2020, the year before the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis began to affect the UK. The…

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Results of the Law Firm Welfare Survey published April 2021

This is a summary of a snapshot survey conducted by Simon Tupman in March 2021 to assess the impact of Covid-19 on law firms globally. The online survey aimed to identify what had changed for better or for worse, whether…

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Avoiding the Bermuda Triangle of Law Firm Management – Joel Barolsky – The Law Chat Series – 15 April 2021

In the new episode of The Law Chat series, Simon Tupman talks with thought leader Joel Barolsky about why some law firms suffer from growing pains and what they can do about it. You can watch the full episode by …

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Trust: The Missing Ingredient in Pricing – Part 2 (first published on Validatum 7 April 2021)

In part two of this three-part blog series, Richard Burcher highlights some of the key things that law firms are guilty of doing which damages trust between them and clients. In the first part, Richard suggested that one of the…

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Doing Law Differently – Lucy Dickens – The Law Chat Series – 17 March 2021

In the most recent episode of Simon Tupman’s The Law Chat series, he discussed how traditional law firm practises can transform themselves into a successful modern legal business with Lucy Dickens. You can watch the full episode by clicking here …

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Trust: The Missing Ingredient in Pricing – Part 1 (first published on Validatum 18 March 2021)

In part one of this three-part blog series, Richard Burcher shares his observations on what firms and their clients are currently doing to damage the relationship and destroy trust when it comes to legal pricing. A major law firm recently…

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THE CHALLENGES AHEAD – WITH JORDAN FURLONG – THE LAW CHAT SERIES – 17 FEBRUARY 2020

In the latest instalment of Simon Tupman’s Law Chat series, Simon chats with renowned author, analyst and forecaster, Jordan Furlong about the challenges ahead for the legal services industry/profession, for firms and for individual lawyers, especially the young generation. You…

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We’ll Have a Chat at the End – ‘Twas Ever Thus – first published on the Validatum website

Validatum kicks off its 2021 blog series with a fresh new format, but an all too familiar problem… What follows will for many of you, be the tortured reality of day-to-day legal practice. In the course of strategising a solution…

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