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Report highlights perception gap between partners and fee-earners
Tuesday, 22 March 2016There is a big gap in the way partners and fee-earners at medium-sized law firms view where they work, including “an exaggerated sense of progressiveness among decision-makers”, a new report has found. Partners were far more confident than fee-earners that their firm had a “clear strategy for the future”.
Tags: Education and training, law firms, marketing, Technology
Posted in hrtraining, Latest news, Marketing & PR, Outsourcing, Technology
Devon will writer to bring Canadian lawyer referral service to UK
Wednesday, 27 January 2016The chief executive of a Devon private client firm is bringing a leading Canadian lawyer referral service to the UK this spring. The UK version of LawyerLocate will operate on “exactly the same model” as the Canadian – which became Google’s first Canadian legal industry partner last year.
Tags: Canada, marketing, referral services
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
Kidwells launches accountancy joint venture – to add to its nine other branded businesses
Friday, 21 August 2015An innovative Hereford-based alternative business structure has set up a joint venture with a Welsh accountancy firm, joining nine other branded businesses in the Kidwell Group, ranging from a barristers’ chambers to a guest house.
Tags: accountants, marketing
Posted in Alternative business structures, Barristers, Latest news, Marketing & PR
Law Society to target big business in new “solicitor brand” campaign
Thursday, 23 July 2015The Law Society’s membership board has approved plans for a long-term campaign to boost the ‘solicitor brand’, which will include bigger businesses and in-house lawyers as buyers of legal services. It is due to be launched next year.
Tags: Find a Solicitor, Law Society, marketing
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
NAH and seven personal injury law firms launch Ethical Marketing Charter
Monday, 20 July 2015National Accident Helpline (NAH) and seven personal injury law firms, including Irwin Mitchell, are launching an Ethical Marketing Charter today. NAH will administer the scheme and handle complaints about possible breaches.
Tags: marketing, personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Practice Management
Big legal brands unveil new marketing campaigns
Thursday, 4 December 2014Forget the John Lewis Christmas advert – lawyers have stepped up efforts to target the over-50s and the victims of medical accidents in the latest high-profile marketing pushes by QualitySolicitors and First4Lawyers respectively.
Tags: clinical negligence, marketing, QualitySolicitors
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
New marketing collective bids to move beyond PI as Accidents Direct plans big panel expansion
Monday, 21 January 2013A new marketing collective that is targeting consumer and commercial legal work – Simply Lawyers – is preparing for launch, Legal Futures can reveal. Meanwhile, Accidents Direct hopes to become the country’s leading claims management company by bringing more firms onto its panel.
Tags: claims management companies, CMC, marketing, personal injury, referral fees
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Marketing & PR
InjuryLawyers4u confident over referral fee ban as it opens up panel for first time in eight years
Wednesday, 14 November 2012InjuryLawyers4u, arguably the UK’s leading solicitors’ marketing consortium, is opening up its panel for the first time in more than eight years. There are currently 43 firms on the panel, collectively spending millions on advertising the service.
Tags: Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, marketing, personal injury, referral fees
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR
Repeat clients are main source of solicitors’ work, says major survey
Friday, 26 October 2012The importance of law firms marketing to their existing client base has come through strongly from major new Law Society research that shows repeat clients are by far solicitors’ biggest source of work.
Tags: Law Society, Legal Services Board, marketing
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Board, Marketing & PR
SRA lays out plan to implement referral fee ban
Tuesday, 23 October 2012It will be for personal injury solicitors to convince the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) that they are not paying referral fees once the ban comes into force, it emerged today as the SRA published its long-awaited consultation on how it will implement the ban.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, claims management companies, CMC, marketing, personal injury, referral fees, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Marketing & PR, Solicitors
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Keeping the conversation going beyond Pride Month
As I reflect on all the celebrations of Pride Month 2024, I ask myself why there remains hesitancy amongst LGBTQ+ staff members about when it comes to being open about their identity in the workplace.
Third-party managed accounts: Your key questions answered
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has given strong indications that it is headed towards greater restrictions on law firms when it comes to handling client money.
Understanding vicarious trauma in the legal workplace
Vicarious trauma can happen to anyone who works with clients who have experienced trauma such as domestic or other violence, child abuse, sexual assault, torture or being a refugee.
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