UK law firms are making headway in the tough South Korean market

North Korea’s belligerence casts a long shadow over its southern neighbour. But South Korea has shown it can develop and thrive despite the tension across the 38th parallel. It is, many insist, a good time for UK law firms to be thinking about South Korea. Although the country has not escaped the global downturn, the manufacturing-driven economy remains the fourth-largest in Asia and the 12th-largest globally, boasting some of the world’s best-known brands, including Hyundai, Daewoo and Samsung.

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Roundtable: market makers

A difficult economy combined with far-reaching changes in legal regulation has given the UK’s dominant legal market, England and Wales, the feel of a dramatic landscape heading into 2013. Commentators have taken to reaching for an impressive range of cliches and metaphors – from ‘perfect storm’ to ‘brave new world’, and even referring to ‘shifting tectonic plates’. The air of breathless expectation was such that one almost expected to see a mushroom cloud over the offices of the Solicitors Regulation Authority upon the advent of alternative business structures (ABSs) a year ago.

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The Brazilian legal market

Commercial firms seeking new frontiers might want to board the next plane to Brazil, if they have not already done so. The country is growing rapidly and is now the sixth largest economy in the world, with a GDP per head bigger than India or China. Brazil has a population of 200 million, with an expanding and increasingly wealthy urban middle class. With vast energy resources, the country also boasts some big outward-looking multinationals. It is also an important financial centre – the Bovespa, the São Paulo stock exchange, is the most important in the region.

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Could 8 Out of 10 Cats help market your firm?

I quite like watching the TV comedy show 8 Out of 10 Cats. Not just because of its entertainment value but because of what it highlights about marketing – yes, even the marketing of law firms.

In case anyone doesn’t know, 8 Out of 10 Cats is based on surveys about how the public respond to various questions.

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Gap in the market

We are in a period of profound change. Last month saw the culmination of the ambitions of legislators to liberalise the legal market with the approval of the first SRA-licensed alternative business structures. Their introduction heralds a major restructuring of the way in which legal services will be delivered in England and Wales. It is too early to say whether this will result in a ‘big bang’ for legal services, but the changes are significant.

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