Practice Intelligence

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...

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...

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 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...

Findings from BigHand’s latest industry report has revealed the extent to which support staff structures are evolving in law firms. With more support staff embracing hybrid working, support staff resignations...

Close on the heels of the Russian invasion of Ukraine early this year, international sanctions came nipping hard and bans were imposed. Popularly dubbed the “Superbowl of Sanctions”, it impacted...

The decision to take your practice from a start-up to a scale-up is not for the faint-hearted. While your growing practice may have a successful business strategy, we know other...

What I have come to learn is that the very highest performing groups, committees, boards and teams, in the best firms, have established for themselves some written guidelines by which...

According to 2022 Bloomberg data, India overtook Britain to emerge as the world’s fifth-largest economy. The Indian economy toppled the UK from its position in the last three months of...

In 2022, the AmLaw 100 announced a collective revenue of $127.4 billion, an increase of 14.8%. The average revenue per lawyer was $1.18 million, up by 12.5% and the average...

When the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) was initially introduced as the new route to qualification in England and Wales by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), it was met with some...

Australian law firms sailed on a banner year with bumper revenues. While on the other hand, they had a counterblast and turned down work due to a lack of resources...

Legal professionals from all over the world will soon be able to attend a first-of-its-kind virtual conference to suit their time zone, with two events taking place at 9 am...

57.1% of clients will change law firms for client service reasons. This ranks higher than factors like legal expertise and cost. This highlights a key issue: law firms are lagging...

The Law Council of Australia has launched a checklist designed to help small legal workplaces and sole practitioners recruit and retain new staff. “This checklist is designed to help legal...