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Employment Law
Robert Spicer’s April Employment Law Case Update
Robert Spicer’s April round up of case summaries featuring unfair dismissal, discrimination and employment tribunals.
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Mental Health
Burnout in the Legal Profession: The Questions We’re Finally Starting to Ask
Burnout isn’t new in law—but talking about it is. Dr Catherine Sykes answers 3 common questions.
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Mental Health
LawCare: Let’s Talk About Gen Z
Join LawCare during Mental Health Week
for a webinar on how generational shifts are shaping the legal profession.
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Legal News
UK Supreme Court Faces Defining Moment in Car Finance Commission Case
The Supreme Court reviews a key case on car finance commissions, with £44bn at stake. A ruling could reshape transparency and industry practices
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Criminal Law
Spotlight on LMP Legal – Bringing the law to life
We are excited to feature LMP Legal in our spotlight series this April discussing the fantastic work that the firm does in the transport and logistics industry to bring the law to life.
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Industrial Disease Claims
Global Asbestos Awareness Week 2025
Our colleague Liam Hill from Oakwood Solicitors shares with us a guide to asbestosis as part of efforts to raise awareness of the disease and the firms work to support victims.
Tracing a Beneficiary? See How the UK’s Rising Cost of Living Affects Inheritance
The cost of living has skyrocketed in the last few months and thus is having a significant impact on the inheritance figures. But most people don’t understand how to work around the issue. Therefore, firms offering tracing and other inheritance-related services need to re-strategise how to advise their clients regarding making plans for their estates.
Kickstart Profitable Growth for Your Law Firm in 90 Days
This training session will show you the immediate steps, strategies, and systems to put in place to continue to grow profitably during 2023. Plus, we’ll also discuss which ‘quick win’ strategies will work best for your firm to give you a boost of additional fee income and profit to create (or enhance) your financial safety net in the next 90 days.
Casedo Case Study: Family Law
Rhys Taylor explains how Casedo works for him in his family law practice.
Exclusive: The Conundrum of Judicial Assistance for Litigants-in-person
In his latest blog post written specially for family law professionals, John Bolch compares an adversarial versus inquisitorial system and the pros and cons when it comes to having no legal representation and litigants-in-person cast adrift in the legal system.
WILKIN CHAPMAN: Cost effective, customised skills and compliance training to make best use of time
Wilkin Chapman LLP is the largest law firm in Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire with over 400 people located across offices in Grimsby, Lincoln, Louth, Horncastle, Beverley and Doncaster. Experts in business and personal law, Wilkin Chapman provides trusted legal and insolvency advice to clients based locally, nationally and internationally.
When a beneficiary cannot be found – What you can do?
When a person dies their possessions and assets form an ‘estate’ this estate must then be distributed to the beneficiaries of the deceased. Here Tracing Direct will go through some of the steps involved in finding beneficiaries, and what you can do in the instances where beneficiaries are not able to be found.
Ask this simple question to help your clients agree to pay higher fees
Have you noticed in recent months, with the worsening economic crisis, that more of your new enquiries are sensitive about fees, or resistant to paying to get the help they need?
If so, there’s a simple way to neutralise their resistance and have them appreciate the value of getting your help – so they say ‘yes’ to working with you at the fees you
want to charge. It doesn’t involve bragging about your own value, or trying to convince them “I’m
worth it! “. It doesn’t require you to give prospective clients a lecture about what’s good for them
and why they ‘need’ your help.
Instead, it’s about asking the right question, at the right time.
So what’s the right question?
Cansford Labs Launches Test for Active Ingredient in Magic Mushrooms
Since their introduction to the western world in the 1950s, magic mushrooms have been inextricably linked with the hippy movement. However, attitudes have changed, and over the years, their popularity has become more mainstream. Home Office data reveals a jump in the number of young people using magic mushrooms – from 49,000 in 2016/17 to 101,000 in 2018/19, while other sources suggest that these psychedelics have ‘become the drug of choice’ during COVID-19 lockdown.
New and Exclusive: the Death (and Rebirth?) of Family Mediation
In his latest exclusive, family law blogger John Bolch examines mediation past, present and what the future holds. We know – attending the most recent Resolution event – that this is a hot topic among family law professionals, and championed by Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division.
3 Critical Steps To Protect Your Law Firm From The Economic Impact Of Inflation And Rising Wage Costs
With rising costs and wage increase demands from staff, and the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on the ability of some clients to pay lawyers’ fees, law firm owners need to act quickly to protect their current levels of fee income and profits, and ensure they can continue to thrive regardless of external issues.
Here are 3 Critical Steps to take in the next few weeks:
The Case of Connie White
When it comes to family trees, there are often surprises hidden around every corner. What appears
on the surface to be a simple and direct family history search can quickly escalate into an
expansive and multi generational case, with beneficiaries that cross continents. It’s instances like
this that can often result in lengthy delays in case resolutions for solicitors and their clients. These
complications require the expertise of genealogical research, allowing for accurate identification of
missing beneficiaries and construction of often complicated family trees in order to identify rightful
heirs.
7 productivity tips for lawyers to improve efficiency
Here, we explain how focusing on productivity can help you to increase efficiency and ultimately improve your performance. We also outline seven workable improvements to adopt to help you boost productivity and reach your full potential.
Is It Time at Last for Rights to Be Given to Cohabitants?
In his latest article, family law blogger John Bolch examines cohabitation, and the issues around cohabitants, families and relationship breakdown and questions whether we will ever see reform here in the UK.
Will Aid’s Letter to the Editor
While we are no longer living with the restrictions once imposed due to Covid-19 and the subsequent worries brought on by the virus, for many of us, our lives remain far from care-free.
Every day we are faced with the devastating circumstances forced upon our Ukrainian neighbours and the consequences for wider Europe. Not only that, but closer to home we are experiencing a cost-of-living crisis, with bills and uncertainty continuing to rise.
Although many things seem uncertain, one thing which remains indisputable is the importance of having a will, ensuring people’s wishes and their loved ones are protected when they die. And that’s where Will Aid can help.
UK solicitors called on to help combat ongoing crises
Charity will-writing scheme Will Aid is looking for more solicitors to sign up to this year’s campaign,
as the cost-of-living crisis and humanitarian disaster in Ukraine continues to put strain on its charity
partners.
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