Would you mourn if your firm was no more?

Just how much attachment do you have to your firm beyond an email address and headed note paper?

Do you feel a surge of loyalty every time you walk past the water feature in reception? Do you relish rivals’ struggles and recoil in horror when your own paymasters start to toil? Or are you a brand of your own? A recognised leader in your field with a client list and Twitter following you could pack up and take with you anytime you want?

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Solicitors in Sevenoaks

Online advice: more out of less

An independent commission, launched on Monday, will look at how to develop strategies to cope with the impending cuts to public funding for legal aid. The chair of this commission, Lord Low, has been reported as saying that this will be about getting ‘more out of less’.

Many industries are realising that more efficient service delivery can significantly improve value. The provision of services online is the most obvious practical example of efficient service delivery. Pro bono organisations like LawWorks – in an attempt to get more out of less – are also exploring this option.

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In Business | Law Gazette



Lawyers in Sevenoaks

Making justice systems more restorative – a view from the bench

What might a justice system which embodied restorative principles look like? What might be the judge’s view – the view from the bench – of a more restorative justice system?

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Opinion | Law Gazette



Conveyancing Solicitors in Sevenoaks

Hillsborough highlights need to make inquiries more effective

by Dr Karl Mackie, chief executive/mediator at the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, London

The shocking revelations of how the investigations were conducted into the Hillsborough disaster – and the delay of 23 years in uncovering the real issues – will only shake an increasingly disturbed faith in the British inquiries system.

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Opinion | Law Gazette



Sevenoaks Lawyers

In-house: no more an overhead

Budget restrictions and financial pressures will cause many councils to place increasing demand on their legal teams to deliver efficiencies, while maintaining high professional standards. Most struggle to do this in the traditional way – by reducing overheads, removing staff or cutting service levels. So at Kent, we tried to find another way.

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