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By Paul Jones
Publishing your fees…the clock is ticking…
December 6th 2018 – the deadline. That’s right, that’s the date that SRA regulated legal firms will have to have their fee information published on their websites (or in alternative format easily available if they don’t have a website). This article is a reminder of what firms need to do for that:
By Paul Jones
Are you ready to publish your firm’s complaints data?
There did seem to be a news article nearly every other week at the tail end of 2017 announcing that Solicitors will be forced to publish their complaints data on their websites. Such articles came from “consumer interest” groups and others such as the Solicitors Regulation Authority publishing research on the subject of complaints.
By Paul Jones
What to look out for as at the end of January 2018…
We’re sure that Christmas has already been consigned to a distant corner of the memory for our solicitor clients, as January has seen a large amount of small, time consuming jobs crop up from different sources. So, we thought we’d take a minute to concentrate on one or two of them that firms should be aware of and acting upon right now…
By Tom Horrocks
The LexisNexis Bellwether Report 2016: The Riddle of Perception, is a very good read. It explores the current and future legal landscape, and the perceptions of lawyers about themselves. In the Report, law firms rank "continuing demands of compliance regulations" as number 1 of their top 10 challenges/ threats to their currents business.