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Close call

In June this year, Sheffield was hit by severe flooding, following some of the wettest weather on record in the UK. On Monday (25 June), Irwin Mitchell's Sheffield offices, located across two buildings in the centre of the city, were badly hit by the flooding. The ground floors of both buildings were engulfed with water.
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Digital Dictation: Dictating the future

Legal Week's analysis of digital dictation systems (DDS) a year ago revealed a market that was still to be fully convinced that this technology is an absolute 'must have' for law firms. Indeed, the research showed that almost 40% of the top 100 firms had not embraced DDS in any form. Crucially, that statistic included all five of the magic circle firms - a statistic that no longer stands after Linklaters introduced digital dictation firm-wide.
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Digital Dictation: Model behaviour

Any survey of information systems at law firms would reveal they have invested heavily in a range of such systems that cover most areas of the business and practice. It is also equally likely to reveal diverse ways in which such information is held and managed in at least some, but probably most, of the key systems. It is only to be expected that new or replacement systems initiatives would be undertaken at different times because firms cannot renew all their systems at the same time.
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Don't believe the hype

Not surprisingly, when it comes to the vastness of the internet, the media likes to focus on the new: new technologies, new phenomena, new dangers, new ways to fritter away time, new knee-jerk reactions by large businesses. Newness is also great for consultants and people involved in business development: new initiatives to be launched, new budgets to be created and new corporate policies to be devised.
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Firm agreement

Clive Greenwood looks at whether restrictive covenants will survive when a law firm's partners vote to become a limited liability partnership
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A client's perspective

I am a prospective client of your firm and I thought I would get in touch. We are looking for a long-term business partner and yours looks like the type of firm we could get close to.
8 minute read

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Source of confusion

So many news articles and IT analysts' reports have been written about open source software (OSS) and its rising popularity that the resulting mound of paper could probably wallpaper an area twice the size of Wales. However, with their characteristic, dogged resistance to change, commercial lawyers have continued to view the subject as the preserve of only the geekiest lawyers working in the technology, media and telecoms (TMT) department.
7 minute read

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Information overload

Information overload is a problem for all of us: too many emails, too much data, too many magazine articles to read. Sorting the wheat from the chaff is a major challenge. And if lawyers are to focus on the right information, a lot of the sorting has to be done for them. How can firms approach this challenge?
8 minute read

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Creative coaching

There are good clients and better clients. This is a situation most law firms will recognise - the better ones are profitable. Yet how do you work out which clients are valuable to the firm? And how true is the accepted premise that you should nurture small clients because they grow into substantial fee generators and pay back the initial investment you make in them?
7 minute read

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Merger mechanics

Over the past five years there have been significant developments within the legal services sector in the major global offshore jurisdictions, in particular the creation of multi-jurisdictional offshore law firms representing a dramatic change from the traditional offshore law firm model.
7 minute read

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