Everyman Legal, the Oxfordshire 'virtual' law firm, has announced plans to launch a franchise operation which would create business hubs for commercial lawyers in towns across the country.
You may have slightly ODd on the turkey last week and only just started to relax after the excesses of Christmas. Don't. Because if you're like the rest of us at Solicitors Journal, you are probably about to seriously OD on another delicacy: alternative business structures.
Your client smells, needs emergency assistance to avoid being kicked out of his council flat overnight, and will not say thank you. Russell Conway opens his housing lawyer diary
It is time to revise the assumption that adoption is always in the interest of children and take time to assess in each case the best outcome, says Finola Moss
All we know about alternative business structures is that they can take an infinite number of shapes, so is the Solicitors Regulation Authority really equipped to take on the role of frontline regulator? Definitely, head of the ABS team Ann Morgan tells Jean-Yves Gilg
The Supreme Court decision refusing a dismissed employee compensation for the way he was sacked provides a further prompt to review the interaction of employment legislation with common law remedies, says Catriona Stirling
The Jackson reforms simply acknowledge that the ability to litigate at a proportionate cost should be available to both claimants and defendants, says Simon Gibbs
