Casedo Case Study: Family Law
Rhys Taylor explains how Casedo works for him in his family law practice.
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.
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?
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:
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.
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.
Best Foundation now working in partnership with Alpha Legal – new subscribers receive 1,000 free credits
The Best Foundation is the new estate planning membership organisation devoted to modernising and improving the will-writing industry.
Easy to Action Interviewing Strategies for Legal Hiring Managers
Interviewing can be just as tough for hiring managers as it is for candidates.
Here’s everything you need to know as a legal hiring manager to hold a great interview
Press Release – by Clayton Legal
Clayton Legal are leading recruitment specialists with over two decades of sector experience- matching legal professionals at all levels to the very best opportunities in the market.
With long-established, and trusted relationships across a client base that includes Legal 500, Top 200,
Regional and Boutique law firms, our team are passionate about driving service excellence across the
business and impacting the careers, and lives, of legal talent across the country.
We take our role in the placing of legal professionals into their dream jobs extremely seriously,
understanding implicitly the importance of listening to requirements, working in their best interest at all times, and giving them the tools and resources, they need at every step of the journey – for a successful outcome for all parties.
Alpha Legal and Clio are now partners! Alpha Legal are in the Clio App Store
Solicitors and other legal practices using Clio can now share contacts and documents via Alpha Legal’s secure client portal giving clients the best possible experience.
5 Tips to Help Your Law Firm with Anti Money Laundering
Anti-money laundering for law firms has always been a concern, what is “enough” information on a client to determine they’re legitimate, and their money is legal? But over the past few years there has been a growing concern within the industry as a whole, specifically pushed by the SRA and Law Society that enough simply isn’t being done. Take for example the story of Mishcon de Reya being fined for AML compliance breaches. They were smacked with a fine of £232,500 which highlights the reinvigorated push for better AML compliance and AML checks within law firms.
With the need for more stringent anti-money laundering checks in the legal sector, we have put together a list of some top tips on how to help you combat money-laundering.
Your Legal CV: Why It’s Still Critical to Your Success This Year
If you are ready to move on in your legal career, I have a question for you; is your CV profiling you in
the best light? I explain more in this week’s posts. ->
Is Alpha Legal the *fastest* as well as the most secure way to collect and verify ID? Take 3 minutes to read this and decide for yourself
We’ve been analysing the time being taken by clients to complete their ID document requests within Alpha Legal. We’re regularly seeing start-to-finish times of 3 minutes now. That’s literally 3 minutes for the user to Compare that to the physical process of visiting you in your office, bringing their paperwork in, having you photocopy or scan it and then you […]
Learn How to Protect Yourself from Ransomware with These Cybersecurity Essentials
From the attack on Hackney council to the Kaseya attack that demanded $70 Million USD, ransomware is posing more of a threat than ever. Especially thanks to COVID-19. For those who are unfamiliar, ransomware is a type of malware that is stealthily installed on an unsuspecting user’s P.C to extract money from their organisation. Before we go into how to […]
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