News & Updates
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Practical steps to beat the credit crunch
These are difficult times for all businesses but for the legal sector in particular it comes on the back of a challenging few years where the infrastructure of the whole sector is under threat. But away from these additional “challenges” you, like all business people, need to ensure that ...
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Putting the I.T. into profit
I have been dealing with legal firms of all sizes for seven years now and it never fails to amaze me the reaction to those two little letters I and T. It starts with a flush of the face followed by the subsequent draining of their entire colour and the big finale when the eyes totally glaze ...
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Reducing the unreduceable
As the gloom of the economy worsens we find ourselves looking closer and closer at what we spend each month within our business to see if we can cut back just a little more on our expenditure. The obvious areas have already been looked at – reducing training budgets, buy less ...
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The myth of the mobile phone deal
Picture the scene if you will, a client who you have worked with for the past couple of years contacts you with a proposition. They want to pay you a monthly retainer guaranteed for the next 18 months by direct debit based on the average numbers of hours of work you do for them ...
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Paperless office – I don’t think so!
I think it was back in the mid-80’s when the concept of the paperless office was first banded about, most probably by IBM who had world domination on their mind at the time. Here we are twenty years later and if anything, with the advent of printing off every email we receive, there ...
