February 14th, 2025
In recent years, the threat of cyber-attacks on law firms has escalated rapidly, transforming cybersecurity from a “nice-to-have” to an absolute necessity in the legal industry. Law firms are particularly vulnerable because they hold a treasure trove of confidential data, ranging from client information to sensitive business and financial documents. As the methods and frequency […]
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September 30th, 2022
Today is the International Day of Peace, and we continue our series of insights into how aligning our work with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) helps us serve our clients more effectively Our previous article here introduced why and how we do this. Today, it seems apt to consider the work we do in the pursuit […]
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December 30th, 2021
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) launched the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (“the SQE”) a new training and qualification regime for solicitors in England and Wales on 1 September 2021. This report is intended to help employers and HR professionals working in the legal sector understand how the new regime might create new hiring possibilities and influence […]
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July 30th, 2021
Our work for three dispute resolution centres in Northern Ireland, Nigeria and Dubai has got us thinking about what makes an effective institution and an attractive offer for clients. In this series of articles, we share some of the findings of our comparative study of 11 centres in Europe, North America and Asia. Part 4: […]
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June 30th, 2021
In July last year, the SRA published a report by the Bridge Group highlighting the diversity challenges around solicitor admission. This report challenged the SRA to gather and make available data relating to diversity and inclusion as the SQE is rolled out over the coming years. The Central Applications Board (CAB) 2020 annual report on the 15,000 […]
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March 24th, 2021
The idea that technology might have a disruptive impact on the provision of legal services is not new. Concerns were raised about the impact on legal practice of fax machines in the 1980s, the internet in the 1990s and the Cloud in the 2000s. Technology offers the potential to crack seemingly intractable problems in the […]
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March 24th, 2021
This short report summarises the findings from a directory of legal regulators which we prepared for the International Bar Association. The report picks out a number of interesting trends in the world of legal regulation including shifts towards national regulation and greater harmonisation in federal systems, as well as movement towards greater openness to foreign […]
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