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Is your workplace toxic? How employers can shield you from stress

Workplace stress can lead to serious mental and physical health consequences, affecting productivity, job satisfaction, and overall wellbeing. In this article, Jessica Rowson of Oakwood Solicitors outlines the legal responsibilities employers have to protect staff from occupational stress, common causes of stress at work, and what employees can do if they feel unsupported.

Top of the Blogs Mental Health

Stepping Up Without Burning Out: A Real Story from Legal Life

This is Hannah’s story, a high-performing lawyer close to burnout who found confidence and balance through tailored coaching with Vikki Pratley. By redefining success, setting boundaries, and making small changes, she learned to thrive in her career without sacrificing her wellbeing. In this powerful article, Vikki shares how targeted support can help legal professionals work smarter not harder.

A History Of Blanchards

Blanchards formed in 2011, by Thanet born Adam Blanchard. Originally starting as a small family business of 2, Blanchards has now grown to a thriving international Heir Hunting firm with a large, skilled, and professional workforce. Moreover, we are about to receive national attention being heavily featured on a new primetime TV programme on a major UK channel.

Database Cleansing: 5 Reasons to Clean Your CRM Data

The impact that dirty data has on businesses is staggering. Luckily, you can clean up your CRM by contracting a professional for help. This will make your business more agile and responsive. It will also help you cut down on unnecessary costs.

SCV offers data clean up services to ensure that your records are error free and up to date. For more information, please email me at brett@scvbespoke.co.uk or call me on 07480 990 290. Alternatively, contact me by filling this form.

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.

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.

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:

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