Category Archives: Legal
Guardian v Times paywall battle moves onto business information turf
It’s interesting that business information like legal reports could end up being the battle ground for a price war. The Times is still an established home for law reports, and lawyers like nothing than to be considered for its flagship ‘lawyer of the week’ column. However, as a niche financial and business journalist, I subscribe only to publications that it’s essential for me to read and as such the Guardian’s new offer presents a useful tool for anyone with a focus on legal services.
Do western lawyers have an opportunity with LPO?
Rachel Rothwell’s blog post in the Law Society Gazette poses an interesting anthropological question for observers of the globalised economy.
No win-no fee advertising – a tough one to call
Neil Rose’s latest column in the Guardian illustrates the difficulty facing policymakers in curtailing the negative consequences of a system that is unpopular with the public while simultaneously being one of the only ways to fulfill our basic right of access to justice.
Legal process outsourcing; The little people are trying to be heard
In my experience it’s often better to take away the responsibility for marketing a business from ‘manufacturing’ and letting the sales people take over instead.
Is the rise of LPO now an inevitability?
This is the kind of processing nightmare that corporates have charged their in-house teams to deal with and as the Gazette article suggests, there are firms now that claim to have the infrastructure and wherewithall to manage it profitably at a fraction of the price.
News roundup – Solicitors’ PI market at a crossroads
All of this illustrates the extreme pressure the legal profession is under right now
Corporate manslaughter sentencing guidelines tightened and apply retrospectively
Somehow it seems rather curious that the guidelines have been published just before the trial.
Women prefer the powerful and the uniformed
Research has confirmed an old saw – women like powerful men and those in uniform, even ugly ones. Recruitment agency review website, HireScores.com polled 1,256 people to find out whether a job could … Continue reading
Love it or hate it, it’s funny if you’re not the joke
RollonFriday’s relentless style took an amusing twist today, with a follow up to last week’s Firm of the Year top 100 thing; namely the ‘Golden Turd’ awards.
Jackson review-athon; what people are saying about it…
Today, the Jackson review recommendations were published and I’d be a rich man if I had a penny for every ten cents put in on this subject. That’s a trans-atlantic metaphor, if ever there was one…
