So, summer seems to be rather cementing its reputation as the season for eye-catching legal business tie-ups that might just point to larger transformation of our community. Last year we had the EY Riverview Law combination excitedly interrupt our icecreams. This year ‘traditional’ legal got in there, with Simmons & Simmons snapping up ‘legal engineering’ […]

Innovation….. no wait, come back! If you’d already switched off, you were perhaps thinking ‘ … not another article about the need for law firms to think outside the box, disrupt the law and all that jazz’. I don’t blame you. As a fan of the Gartner hype cycle, it seems that with ‘innovation’ we […]

I assume most of you will have heard of work done on managing ‘sticky relationships’. Ah no, that’s nothing to do with trying to keep a big row from blowing up in the papers in already turbulent times. It’s the way that organisations – perhaps, say, those papers themselves – try to keep people consistently […]