For some law firms, the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown have finally and forcibly broken the paper chains that used to bind secretaries and fee earners to their desks.

Having expended all that energy fusing their functional silos over the years (a fairly constant theme for us since Briefing began publishing a decade ago), law firms will surely be keen to ensure this doesn’t entirely unravel in the exceptionally uncertain environment facing us today. As we know though, engagement/management of all project stakeholders is […]

Law firms that choose to specialise more are managing to outperform others in the market in terms of some key metrics, but they experience higher overheads, according to latest data from Peer Monitor. _______________________________________________________________ Peer Monitor Perspective _______________________________________________________________ The growth of boutique firms continues across the legal market. For these ‘focused firms’ – meaning that […]