Strategy & Innovation

The pandemic has changed employee expectations of their working life. A recent Microsoft survey confirmed that employees want the best of both worlds: 73% want flexible remote work options to continue; at the same time 67 percent are craving more in-person time with their teams.

As Practice Managers, General Managers, Office Managers — let's be honest, it's JOBS not job. Whilst we won’t be able to assist with most of your other responsibilities, we can try and assist you with the decisions you have to make around your firm’s technology requirements and how to better work with your IT provider to hopefully let you hang up that one hat.

Fee-related questions are amongst the trickiest a solicitor needs to answer confidently. This is true whether you view these questions from the clients’ perspective of value-for-money. Or for your firm’s profitability. Before you quote a price to clients you need to answer some really important questions.

A collaboration between The College of Law’s Centre for Legal Innovation (CLI) and the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA), the event aims to shift the mindset of the legal industry – and act as a catalyst for sustained continuous improvement.

Firms took steps to share the burden amongst staff and partners, and to utilise available mechanisms to reduce cost and share the load. Since late March, top-tier and mid-tier law firms have been implementing various measures in response to COVID-19.