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Expert witness | Bringing your expert witness agency in-house

April 2013 is fast approaching and personal injury firms are looking for ways to preserve their profitability. Sharon Lister explains how bringing your expert witness agency in-house may help

Streamlining quality: Managing quality standards across international offices

Inter-office quality management is vital to creating a sustainable international brand for your new network, says Ernestine McKay

Values beacon: Core values that change behaviours

Rob Lees and August Aquila discuss how to develop core values that transform firmwide behaviour

Spotting weaknesses: Why your law firm needs a risk audit

A risk audit can be valuable in determining whether your legal practice will be sustainable and profitable in future, says Tom Berman

Caught in the system: the effect of abolishing IPP

Despite the abolition of indeterminate sentences, the new rules cannot be applied retrospectively. Philip Rule considers how the Court of Appeal is responding

Practice management | The dispersed law firm

You can chase IT as ?it constantly evolves, or ?use it to stay ahead of the game. William Robins introduces the dispersed ?law firm and the technology that enables it

Practice management | Adapt to survive

Mark Hovell explains how a well-managed ?period of change can breathe new life into ?a stagnating practice

Practice management | Realising brand value for law firms

Law firms' brands are still too often tied to the individual partners' own, dangerously so in the post-Legal Services Act age, says Thayne Forbes