LawNet, the leading network for independent legal firms, has announced a further new member – Grant Saw LLP in south east London. The firm is the fifth member to be announced in the last 12 months and the signing brings LawNet closer to its target of...
The changing legal services market offers big opportunities to mid size firms, according to managing and senior partners attending this year’s LawNet conference. But the firms also said that if they were to benefit from the opportunities, they needed to develop a stronger strategy, must look...
Niche markets and new technology solutions were the big story for this year’s LawNet awards. And the leading law firm network says it represents a bullish attitude to change in the sector from the mid-size independents that make up its membership. Top awards went to Buckles Solicitors...
LawNet is to provide its CPD accredited training free of charge to members, saying it wants to help firms maintain training standards against a backdrop of tough economic trading conditions. The scheme was successfully piloted on a selection of courses earlier this year and is now...
[caption id="attachment_504" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The LawNet challenge winning team from Gamlins"][/caption] A team from Gamlins in Rhyl have taken the LawNet Challenge title, completing an 11 mile course with a 3800 foot ascent to the summit of Snowdon, in a blistering 269 minutes and 10 seconds. The...
See coverage of this in The Guardian Law: click to view Guardian website Following the announcement by the SRA on the outcome of last year’s Work Based Learning pilot scheme for trainee solicitors, one of the organisations involved has said the sector will face a tough...
News Release: ABS and investor strategy opportunities are top of the agenda for a group of independent firms. They will be working with leading industry strategists in a LawNet masterclass that has been designed to place law firm leadership development in the context of the Legal Services...
LawNet, the leading network for independent legal firms, has announced four new members – Breeze & Wyles in Hertfordshire, Denison Till in York, Godloves in Leeds, and Swinburne & Jackson in the North East. Welcoming the firms, LawNet chief executive John Thomas said: “It’s excellent to...
[caption id="attachment_68" align="aligncenter" width="227" caption="Helen Hamilton Shaw, Director of Services, LawNet"][/caption] Technology-based services for legal solutions will improve internal efficiencies and open new markets without compromising professional offering A group of leading independent firms are pioneering online legal service delivery following an exclusive deal...
[caption id="attachment_50" align="aligncenter" width="594" caption="LawNet firms receive their awards at the annual conference"][/caption] South East firm Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP has been named the LawNet Law Firm of the Year. The firm scooped the prize for its successful strategy in driving up its commercial client...
