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In our business-focused article this week, ‘How to: run a virtual firm’, James Knight of Keystone Law and Guy Setford of Setfords share their experience of running what they prefer to call ‘dispersed’ or ‘displaced’ law firms.
Deploying lawyers who work ‘remotely’ rather than in massed ranks in a shiny central office does, of course, feel quite different, and as a modus operandi brings its own set of challenges.
With Legal Aid being cut beyond recognition, Zoe Saunders takes a look at what potentially lies ahead with the rise of litigants in person
The Lawyer – Opinion
Congratulations to local government lawyers for securing from the Solicitors Regulation Authority a rule change allowing them to charge local charities for legal services. Self-evidently, this is a commercial income-generating arrangement, not a philanthropic endeavour.
In the spirit of a level playing field, presumably lawyers engaged in this work will now be happy to pay for practising certificates and contribute a fair share of the regulatory costs imposed on their private sector counterparts?
Mark Johnson, managing director, TPP Law, London SE1
A fire drill at Chancery Lane last week left shirt-sleeved Law Society staff hopping from foot to foot on the ice outside. Yet there was a roseate glow emanating from a goodly number, particularly in policy – and it wasn’t the cold. ‘Lawyers 5, accountants 2,’ offered one observer, having just been told of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the scope of legal professional privilege. The Society, of course, intervened in the case and deserves a share of the plaudits.
Bristol, Manchester and Newcastle City Councils have published their proposed budgets for 2013/14, exposing further cuts on spending for government legal departments.
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