Features and Opinion – Page 5

Feature

New obligations

2014-02-12T00:00:00Z

By 2018, all UK firms will be required to enrol all eligible employees into a qualifying pension scheme. Georgina Beechinor looks at how these changes and developments will affect law firms, and what you should be doing now to prepare

Feature

Private lives

2013-11-12T00:00:00Z

Six months on from the major changes to family legal aid, many firms are still grappling with the move from legal aid to private clients. Helen Broughton explains some of the management and financial challenges, and how to deal with them

Feature

Golden Brown

2013-11-12T00:00:00Z

Wosskow Brown managing partner, Ian Brown, on securing new banking facilities worth nearly £2m

Feature

Set apart

2013-08-13T00:00:00Z

Guy and Chris Setford of Setfords Solicitors on the benefits of moving to a fee-sharing model

Feature

War of independence

2013-08-13T00:00:00Z

Ian Muirhead provides a personal perspective on the Solicitors Regulation Authority decision to allow referrals from non-independent financial advisers, and looks at how law firms can select advisers they can trust with their referred clients

Feature

The rules of civility

2013-08-13T00:00:00Z

The cuts to civil legal aid have hit both members of the public and law firms hard. Richard Burcher looks at the strategic options for firms deciding whether or not to continue with civil legal aid work

Feature

Here be Dragons

2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

David Beech of Knights Solicitors on securing private  equity investment

Feature

Back to basics: Cashflow

2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Knowing your worst and best cashflow months will help you decide when to make additional items of expenditure and how to negotiate overdrafts

Feature

In the nick of time

2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The news is full of horror stories about law firms going under, but if firms act as soon as they find themselves in trouble – and even before – they could avoid becoming just another statistic. Nick Jarrett-Kerr gives his 12 top tips for financial recovery

Feature

From tip to toe

2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Nigel Haddon reviews a new free e-book which aims to help firms to be more profitable through 12 ‘top tips’, covering everything from recruitment to instructing barristers

Feature

Managing for Success February 2013

2013-02-08T19:07:00Z

This edition features the Financial Benchmarking Survey, ABSs, retirement planning, regulatory change, a business health check, data protection, client care letters, PR, change management, risk management, fees for PI work, and pensions auto-enrolment  

Feature

Managing for Success August 2012

2012-08-06T19:21:00Z

This edition features ABSs, becoming a niche practice, tax planning, legal project management, using your partner reward system to achieve competitive advantage, and the challenges for legal businesses of the move towards paperless courts  

Feature

Managing for Success May 2012

2012-05-08T19:32:00Z

This edition features the LMS Financial Benchmarking Survey, how to access and use business intelligence, the Lexcel and the Excellence in People standards, ABSs, leadership, compliance planning, whistleblowing, and lean techniques