If Jay Rayner voms on your reputation
I'm taking a break for Easter and in doing so finding more time to read reviews and other lighter bits of news. Whilst cracking open the Campari I took a sharp intake of breath to observe the PR disaster for...
Law firm results season – to shine, or blend in?
Who's up and who's down? After the excitement (or frustrations) of the directories' publication, law firm results season is the next opportunity to ask the question. I don't need to tell you it's a tricky market, and firms are rightly...
Expert papers: how giving free advice could win you business
Clients want a lawyer's expertise – that's why they hire you. But while scouring your firm's website will give them some insight into the legal knowledge that you hold, there are more effective ways to highlight the fact that you...
What can the legal sector learn from startups?
The startup is often feted as the future of the business world. At the same time we are constantly made aware that, statistically, a large proportion of startups will eventually fail. So, startups represent both great potential and a lack...
Directories, key questions: referees and extensions
Referees are key to the directories process. However, they also provide the source of the widest range of questions we receive from clients who sometimes struggle to get to grips with the way the things work. It doesn't help that...
#WhatFeministsWear
“What do feminists wear?” That might sound like the opener to a joke – probably a bad joke and one that might make you secretly want to slap the person telling it – but it's not. It's the question that's been...
Has Facebook failed in tackling its content issues?
Facebook has a problem today. Or to be more precise, the social media platform has two problems – both are being played out in the media, and one of them was entirely avoidable. Websites where the content is user-generated will always...
Legal directories in the Middle East
The 12th April is, apparently, the anniversary of the day that the first US colonists arrived at 'Cape Disappointment'. This year that coincides with the publication of the EMEA Legal 500. How, I wonder, will you be feeling? Disappointed? Elated? Vindicated?...
Latin America: challenges and opportunities for law firms
As a fan of 1980s US TV exports, I'm worried that the five days I have planned in Miami won't include many encounters with people who wear shoes with no socks, or who sport a white blazer jacket with the...
Insurers everywhere, but where are the lawyers?
The Lord Chancellor's decision this week to cut the discount rate used to calculate lump-sum payouts in personal injury (PI) claims from 2.5 percent to minus 0.75 percent was bad news for insurers but good news for those injured through no fault...