Practice Intelligence

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...

David Woolstencroft interviews David Hepburn, President of Actionstep to discuss what progressive law firms are currently achieving in the highly competitive legal sector. The business of law discussion traversed many insightful...

The pandemic-induced lockdown of 2020 turned out the lights on the global economy, resulting in weak earnings in every sector. The legal industry, however, managed to blunt the force of...

Nicholes Family Lawyers and Resolve Conflict Family Lawyers have collaborated on bringing to Victoria a groundbreaking people-focused approach to family law conflict resolution called “Our Family in Two Homes”.  Instead...

For many professions, the modern workplace looks almost unrecognisable compared to even a few years ago. The traditional “work from a fixed location, every day” arrangement often fails to meet...

The fabulous team at Actionstep recently hosted The Future of Mid-Market Law event at the exclusive 6HEAD, overlooking the Sydney Opera House. Mike McKell, Ximena Farias, Triona Saunders and Rose Fitzmaurice...

The legal system has always been overburdened, but never like what we are experiencing today. Backlog in courts worldwide has grown to hundreds of thousands of cases and, The Guardian...

There are few people out there with bad intentions, but there are firm leaders with bad habits. I recently spent an hour on a call with the managing partner of...

On 28 September, over 300 legal professionals from across Aotearoa and overseas will gather in person in Auckland for the premier legal innovation and technology event on the New Zealand calendar. LawFest...

LawVision and Iridium Technology (now part of BigHand) have today shared the results of their fourth annual law firm profitability survey. The survey, with responses from 74 law firms covering...

Gone are the days when a law degree merely meant charting a career as an attorney practising in a court of law. Up until recently, the opportunities that were available...