Legal Insights

Interesting Article by Lee Schnider in the Journal "Taxation & Regulation of Financial Institutions" where she points out that regulators...

The Accountancy firm Deloitte has carried out an interesting analysis of data from the Office of National Statistics which indicates...

Kodi is an open sourced software designed to bring videos, music, games and photographs together in one easy-to-use app. However,...

Given the recent news that an employee of the Royal Household is being sent to jail for taking bribes and several football managers have...

Thanks so much to Edward Fennell for mentioning our new report with Fox Williams entitled, "From Recruitment to Robots: growth strategies...

Last year I reading an article on the BBC predicting that by 2025, up to a quarter of jobs will be replaced by either smart...

In October 2016, most minimum wage rates will increase. The national living wage (NLW), which applies to workers aged 25 or over, will...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, with some loving tattoos and believing that they are a work of art and others despising them. But...

The post Brexit vote calm before the storm may be drawing to a close.

Best information suggests that the English P.M. will pull the...

Really interesting roundup of the new technologies that are changing the way the legal sector works. The robots are coming...

What are your health and safety responsibilities if you are the only contractor on a building site or a construction project? The answer...

As I sit in Cozumel waiting to take the ferry back to Cancun I am reflecting on a tough triathlon, mixing it up with the best in the...

I must read the book that is reviewed in this article (link below) if I can find time! To view the business of law through the lens of...

We talk a great deal about the content framework Hero, Hub, Hygiene. This was introduced to us by Google and YouTube.

Imagine your website...

The biggest challenge to sustained business success is to manage the risk that once you start to grow, you stop doing the things that...

TheLaw Society Gazette reported on our latest research, 'From Robots to Recruitment: Growth Strategies for Law Firms'', picking up on the...

This week is ‘Social Media Week London’, so what better time than now to broaden your foray into social media? If you have been planning...

It sounds somewhat ludicrous. Further strikes are affecting commuters in London - this time because managers at Transport for London...

I've posted on this topic before, and now more and more family lawyers are reporting that increasing numbers of young couples are...

This is the latest in a series of judgments relating to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.

In this case, female civil...

When an employer wants to reject a request for flexible working, they often give a great deal of consideration to the reasons set out in...

On my flight back from Hong Kong recently, I watched the very gripping 'Eye in the Sky' movie. 

This film is a surprisingly cerebral look...

This is an interesting article, lets reflect with law firms in mind and those that engage with businesses instead of consumers.

Gathering...

When I qualified as a solicitor at a very large City of London law firm, it had only one woman partner, but no BAME, disabled or LGBT...

Trainees are staying on at the magic circle firms. With 3 firms boasting over 90% retention rates it looks like the talent pool is going...

It has been a tense few months for listeners to BBC Radio 4's soap Archers, awaiting the verdict of the jury in Helen Titchener's trial,...

The number of new law firms being set up is much greater than those closing down.

Over 1,000 new firms likely to be set up in 2016.

The...

As we know the Labour Court has been given a massive remit under the Workplace Relations Act 2015.  Since 1 October 2015 it now deals...

The Ministry of Justice has published its statistics on employment tribunal claims for April to June 2016.  The full reports can be...

The Office of National Statistics has published new estimates on the use of zero hours contracts.  The figures are startling - with over...

A Cambridge PhD student has gone to the effort of finding the 10 weirdest laws that still exist today. I think many of us are guilty of...

This is a must attend event for anyone interested in law firm growth strategies.

Byfield Consultancy would like to invite you to the...

In a bid to win more business, Goldman is giving clients free access to its prized internal Securities DataBase ("SecDB"). The system...

Independent contracting and zero hours contracts are popular topics for many articles and reports today, as well as the subject matter...

Employees can be badly behaved in any number of ways and for any number of reasons. There are 3 key questions that you’ll need to address...

Very often I sit there wondering if the news really is always so negative, and always about reporting crimes.. 

Do you feel the same?

We are seeing more and more of these online legal companies setting up...Is the industry changing? will firms take stock and see the...

Forbes' linked article on how platforms are 'eating the world' and helping to create indispensable trading partners, is one of those...

Anecdotally, family lawyers are reporting an increase in financial disputes between already divorced ex-spouses who did not complete a...

Nice survey results and very true, in short the outcome is that fintech feels Innovating Financial Services Requires Collaboration For...

Reading about a lawyer suing her former firm for gender discrimination, I was struck by my initial reaction that this lady was mad, she...