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Beyond competitors: Partnering with another legal services provider

Tim Aspinall explains why DMH Stallard decided to form a strategic alliance with Riverview Law

Should will writing be the 'loss leader' in your private client services chain?

Persuading clients that one of your partners should act as executor of their wills is a reasonable strategy to keep your will-writing business thriving but it is not without risks, say Mike Jarrett and Justin Holmes

Society of Conservative Lawyers attacks price competitive tendering

PCT could lead to 'the creation of anti-competitive monopolies'

Unrated and unreliable?

Not all SME law firms support the solicitors' representative body's stance on unrated insurers

An Englishman abroad: the pros and cons of overseas personal injury claims

The opportunity created for lawyers by overseas personal injury claims is equalled only by the risk, says Matthew Chapman

The purpose of the 'open offer' is a mystery

If the purpose of the 'open offer' is to force paying parties to make realistic ?offers at an early stage it has ?failed, argues Simon Gibbs

Workshop: When is a partner not a partner

HMRC's latest consultation on partner status should make lawyers take a long look at existing arrangements, says Jonathan Silverman

Update | Crime: criminal cartel offence, the Victims' Right to Review, tax evasion and new caution guidance

Miranda Ching examines changes to the criminal cartel offence, the Victim's Right to Review, HMRC's exposal of tax evasion and new guidance on the issuing of cautions