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How to recover debts owed to your business

Abacus Solicitors outlines the steps your firm can take to retrieve monies

Quindell lessons: Is the legal profession compatible with capital markets?

Colin Gibson explores whether the situations which arose at Quindell and Slater and Gordon point to deep-rooted challenges for the future of the legal services market

Risk and restructuring: Law firm insolvencies

In the wake of some high-profile failures, Martha Thompson considers the factors that pose a challenge for firms and can contribute to financial difficulties

Budget briefing: Turn around when possible

Professional practice partners will cautiously welcome the chancellor's NIC U-turn, but need to watch out for his next move, advises Louis Baker

Critical time ahead for PI firms

With reform firmly on the horizon, firms need to take a critical look at the profitability of their personal injury work and consider a radical shake-up, advises Lesley Graves

'I'm a lawyer, get me out of here'

Martyn Caplan advises firms on how to plan succession and exit routes – and their financial future

Turning data into results

Firms generate plenty of data, but unless it is accurate, easily understood, and acted upon, it will not improve performance, explain Barry Wilkinson and John Humpherson

NIC rise will see 'big law firm partners' pay a little more

Treasury seeks higher contributions from lawyers while HMRC targets advisers who enable tax avoidance schemes