Bar Council of India to Liberate Indian Legal Market March 23, 2023 Last week, the Bar Council of India (BCI) made a notable decision to permit foreign law firms to practice within India, marking a significant shift from their previous policy that...
Legal Outsourcing Market: Who Benefits and What affects March 17, 2023 Over the past few decades, outsourcing legal services has become increasingly popular in the industry. This practice involves transferring legal work from law firms or legal departments to external service...
Global Legal Practice: Predictions and Preparations March 13, 2023 The legal industry is continuously changing, and globalisation has expedited this process. Technological advancements, shifting demographics, and new forms of competition will lead to substantial transformations in legal practice in...
Law Firms Financial Transparency and Pricing Pressures March 8, 2023 With a global recession and further economic downturn predicted, clients are demanding financial transparency and cost certainty across their engagements with law firms as they look to alleviate their cost pressures....
Law Firm Transformational Success March 8, 2023 Legal Practice Intelligence interviews Jane Oxley, CRO of Smokeball, to discover the latest legal industry findings from a leader in the sector. Jane unwraps what innovative firms are moving towards,...
Mental Health and New Skills Key for Victorian Lawyers March 7, 2023 A survey of more than 500 members of the Victorian legal profession conducted by the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) has revealed that the legal profession faced a range of...
Law Firm Account Based Marketing February 24, 2023 Account Based Marketing (ABM) is a growth strategy focused on creating more personalised experiences for top current and prospective clients. ABM is an effective way to grow a law firm’s...
Sheetal Deo Named 2023 Smokeball Community Hero February 20, 2023 Sheetal Deo, the Founder of Shakti Legal Solutions in Helensvale, Queensland has been named the Smokeball Community Hero for 2023, announced at Smokeball Spark. The Smokeball Community Hero Award acknowledges...
QLD Legislation for Property Sales Live Next Week February 16, 2023 New legislation taking effect next week makes buying and selling real estate in Queensland faster and more efficient, with conveyancing transactions to be conducted electronically. Queensland is the last of the major...
Bridging the Process Gap with Managed Outsourcing February 14, 2023 Industries including the legal industry all around the world shifted to the practice of outsourcing in recent times while most of it happened during the times of the global pandemic....
Law Firm Data Retention in the Time of Cybercrime January 25, 2023 The recent Cyber-attacks on Optus and Medibank may have grabbed most of the headlines with respect to Cyber breaches in Australia, but it is obviously a worldwide issue, with 2022...
Galilee Solicitors Achieves ISO 27001 Certification January 24, 2023 Galilee Solicitors announces that they have achieved ISO 27001 certification, demonstrating their commitment to protecting sensitive client information and maintaining the highest standards of information security. ISO 27001 is internationally...
10 Law Firm Strategic Planning Traps to Avoid January 19, 2023 In our highly competitive knowledge economy, a critical path to success is to out-think (innovate), out-learn (continual knowledge and skill development), and out-run (become a first mover in lucrative micro-niches)...
The Power of Client Endorsements December 15, 2022 It’s hard to deny, clients today are particularly sceptical. So, one of the most difficult challenges that each of us as professionals face, is coming up with a convincing response...
Smokeball Launches Second Annual Community Hero Award December 12, 2022 The Smokeball Community Hero Award returns for a second year to acknowledge the impactful work that small law firms conduct in their communities. Honouring the legal industry members who go above and...
Law Firm Leadership Evaluation Criteria December 5, 2022 The benefits of leaders voluntarily initiating their own performance evaluation can be enormous. There is an empirical correlation between the strength of a leader and their willingness to ask for candid...
Data-Driven Law Firms to Counter a Forecasted Recession December 2, 2022 Research from BigHand shines a light on the increasing cost pressure law firms face in an unprecedented financial climate. Law firms are experiencing economic changes and geopolitical instability that are...
Iconoclasts Discover More Profitable Law Firms Approach December 1, 2022 Research conducted by the Legal Iconoclasts EXPO finds the more profitable firms have a different approach to pricing: Only 48% of Law firms expect profitability to increase by at least...
Tradition Reigns Supreme in Small Law Work Attraction November 29, 2022 Findings from the Smokeball State of Small Law Australia Survey 2022 Small law firms across Australia still rely heavily on referrals (84 per cent) and word of mouth (82 per...
Cyberattacks Against the Legal Sector Increase in 2022 November 23, 2022 Imperva Threat Research released new data that shows cyberattacks in Australia have grown significantly in both frequency and severity in 2022, at a rate that outpaces the global average. Cyberattacks...
2022 Dye & Durham and ALPMA Legal Industry Report November 21, 2022 What if people belonging to the Legal diaspora could lay their hands-on data statistics that offer valuable insight into some of the major challenges faced by the legal industry with...
Central West Lawyers Join Effort for Flood Affected November 21, 2022 At least ten Central West law firms have committed to providing free legal help to victims of the region’s floods, on various issues related to the disaster. President of the...
Why Don’t Lawyers Sell Better? November 18, 2022 Fact: Lawyers who proactively reach out to prospective clients to engage them in sales discussions, get new engagements only about eight per cent of the time. Put another way, ninety-two...
Unseating the Incumbent Provider | Power Question November 7, 2022 The only thing standing between you and your ideal prospect is the lawyer currently doing the work. Many of the new engagements that you pursue are matters that an incumbent...
Moonlighting and the Legal Industry November 2, 2022 Moonlighters have existed since the very emergence and evolvement of commercialisation and work culture. In the wake of the lethal pandemic (COVID-19), necessary adoption of flexible workplace practices by corporates...
Homeowners Strike Gold on the Coast October 27, 2022 InfoTrack Reveals Q3 2022 Property Results for QLD. Over the past few years, the sunshine state has experienced a property boom, with an influx of potential buyers migrating into Queensland....
Agile Leadership | Navigating the Double Bind October 26, 2022 Over the past two decades, I have had the privilege, through my research, interviews, and hands-on consulting to peek behind the veil surrounding the challenges of becoming a NEW Firm...
Law Firm Talent Management | Where to Focus October 21, 2022 A lawyer’s progression from associate to partner is no cakewalk but a journey fraught with bumps, peaks and valleys. One graduates law school magna cum laude; gets hired by a...
Australian Family Lawyers to Merge with GTC Legal Group October 19, 2022 AF Legal Group Ltd (ASX:AFL) announces that it has executed a share sale deed to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of GTC Legal Group Holdings Pty Ltd, the...
The Four Legal Sales Strategies October 20, 2022 Most professionals use a generic sales approach for every sales situation. The sales strategy can generally be described as one in which you position yourself as the ‘best choice’ legal...
Ride the Tide | Analysing Listed Law Firms' Performance October 10, 2022 Unlike almost every other profession, the legal industry is the only one owned and regulated by its practitioners i.e., lawyers, themselves. However, a few manage to go public and list...
Unstoppable Legal Industry Amid Sanctions (Part 2) October 6, 2022 In our September 2022 article titled, “Unstoppable Legal Industry Amid Sanctions (Part 1)”, we showcased the announcements of leading global law firms regarding boycotting and leaving Russian territory. Everyone knows...
Is Sales Enablement The Next Big Thing for Law Firms? October 5, 2022 Research says that individuals only retain about 10% of what they are taught in-classroom training. In fact, it's estimated that half of classroom learning is lost within the first 24...
The New Normal Is Here to Stay for Small Law Firms October 4, 2022 The Second Annual Smokeball State of Small Law Australia Survey released. The COVID impact of working from home has certainly become the ‘new normal’ for the Australian small law sector...
Next Phase Arbitration | Laura Keily, Immediation June 8, 2022 David Woolstencroft catches up with Laura Keily, Founder and CEO of Immediation. Laura expresses her excitement with the recent announcements with Maxwell Chambers and Clio, further elevating their international market reach...
Titans of LegalTech | David Boland, PracticeEvolve February 8, 2022 David Woolstencroft catches up with David Boland, the CEO of PracticeEvolve, a leading global legal practice management solution provider. David Boland discusses the legal industry, PracticeEvolve, and how they align their software to...
Conscious Leadership Ahead for Lawyers? February 2, 2022 Elevate business through humanity | Elevate humanity through business. You may have previously gained access to the articles by Marika Messager, the CEO of ConsciousLeaderhip.org on LPI. Marika has provided a positive impact...
Great Resignation or Great Hype January 31, 2022 David catches up with Jason Elias from Elias Recruitment to discuss how the great resignation has impacted the Australian legal industry. Just when we thought the economy was opening up...
The State of the Market in 2022 January 19, 2022 David Woolstencroft interviews Jason Elias from Elias Recruitment. They talk about the current state of the market, and interestingly there is usually a spark in the market at this time...
Does My Law Firm Need Client Success Managers? December 7, 2021 David Woolstencroft catches up with Steve Tyndall, the CEO and Founder of Client Sense. They talk about the importance of client management function in a law firm and how this...
The Impact Of The Great Resignation On Law Firms December 1, 2021 David Woolstencroft and Steve Tyndall the CEO and Founder of Client Sense talk about "The Great Resignation" and some practical steps that firms can take to deal with talent leakage...
How To Mitigate Property Risk Around Bushfires | LPI November 17, 2021 David Woolstencroft and Garth Brown from Brown and Brown Conveyancers catch up and talk about the property risk that emerges due to bushfires. It is only 2 years since Australia experienced...
Land Contamination - Reduce Property Risks | LPI October 21, 2021 David Woolstencroft catches up with Garth Brown from Brown & Brown Conveyancers.David and Garth talk about several issues around land contamination that property lawyers, conveyancers and their clients need to be...
Finance Tips for Firms | Sam McCarthy | LPI October 11, 2021 David Woolstencroft interviews Sam McCarthy, the Co-Founder and Director of Fresh Finance Group. Sam shares finance and banking information for your consideration. Sam outlines the importance of finding the best...
Property Update by Garth Brown | LPI October 8, 2021 David Woolstencroft caught up with Garth Brown from Brown & Brown Conveyancers. Garth discusses how the pandemic has impacted the property market and how people have worked around the restrictions...
Titans of LegalTech | Richard Hugo-Hamman, LEAP | LPI September 28, 2021 Before Australian tech superstars Atlassian and Canva put Australia on the map, LEAP was a hugely influential international business, empowering thousands of law firms to run successful practices around the world.
Titans of LegalTech | Hunter Steele, Smokeball | LPI September 21, 2021 Inspired by the challenges that small laws face first hand - Hunter Steele is on a mission to make life better for small law firms around the world. Follow Hunters...
Buying and Selling Law Firms, Peter Frankl | LPI September 11, 2021 Paula Teague of Sirius Law recently interviewed Peter Frankl. Issues covered: 1. Productivity in law firms 2. The billable hour 3. The winding down lawyer 4. Thriving practices that can’t...
Family Law LegalTech Spotlight, Settify | LPI September 6, 2021 Recently we had the opportunity to talk with Max Patterson (Co-Founder & Executive Chair) and Paul Psaltis (Global CEO) at Settify, who are helping family law practices streamline routine processes...
Property Update By Macquarie Group August 23, 2021 Key points from Macquarie Group 1. Before Covid: strong growth in house prices – particularly Sydney and Melbourne 2. After Covid: listing numbers fell sharply but now back to average...