Latest Legal News

Articles

Make or buy: How to choose a KM system for your firm

Stephanie Barnes explores the key considerations in choosing between a custom and off-the-shelf KM system

Bringing new thinking to the high street

Initiatives such as Rocket Lawyer will help change the perception of legal services as a distress purchase, and that should benefit all law firms

Desperately seeking cover: PII renewal in times of crisis

The demise of the assigned risks pool could not only force dozens of firms to close down, it could also be a honey trap for insurers tempted to compete on price at the lower end of the market. Jean-Yves Gilg reports

Are bankruptcy proceedings becoming too easy?

A paper-only procedure and the possibility of petitioning online are doing little to dispel the growing impression that bankruptcy proceedings are becoming too easy, says Harold Godwin

Does a bonus culture do more harm than good?

By Guy Vincent, Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell

Update | IP/IT: trademarks infringements

Susan Singleton considers the challenge to the Digital Economy Act, trademark cases 'pitting Red Bull against a German drink producer and Apple against Samsung, 'and the latest ICO decisions

Great expectations: Bradbury v Taylor

Leslie Blohm QC reports on the Court of Appeal case of ?Bradbury v Taylor

No one size fits all: not-for-profit legal services providers cannot be treated like law firms

The requirement in the Legal Services Act for university-based law clinics to become ?alternative business structures will jeopardise their very existence, says Elaine Campbell