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Law firms are successfully implementing an array of process, technology and people focussed innovations to transform their legal service delivery and drive client outcomes, evidenced by the finalists in this year’s ALPMA/LexisNexis Thought Leadership Awards.

Law firms are operating in unprecedented times and they need to step it up if they are to stay ahead according to the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA).

Women dominate the New Zealand legal profession but are significantly under-represented in partner ranks and in law firm board rooms, according to the 2016 ALPMA/McLeod Duminy NZ Legal Industry Salary & HR Issues Survey results.

Results of the 2016 ALPMA/empire group Legal Industry Salary & HR Issues survey. Most lawyers and staff working at Australian law firms can expect to receive a pay rise at or above the Consumer Price Index (CPI), according to the 2016 ALPMA/empire group Legal Industry Salary & HR Issues Survey results.

A new study of Australian law firms suggests the profession has moved on from a period of consolidation and profit protection in the previous twelve months to a position where they are both expecting and planning to increase rates of full time hires and elevate more lawyers to partner positions.

Australasian law firms are relying on traditional methods for winning new business for their firm, missing online opportunities and resisting improving their marketing and business development capability, according to new research by the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA) and Julian Midwinter & Associates (JMA).

New ALPMA/Crowe Horwath survey shows financially healthy NZ legal sector planning for growth A new survey of New Zealand law firms shows the sector is expecting an average of five per cent growth in the next financial year - building on gross profit margins* that currently average nearly 80 per cent.

A new research survey by international Customer Experience specialists CXINLAW has revealed some significant, and potentially very expensive, service failings amongst Australian law firms.

LegalVision, an online law firm targeting small to medium Australian businesses, was crowned the 2015 ALPMA/InfoTrack Thought Leadership Award winner, ahead of finalists RMB Lawyers, The Conveyancing Shop and LawLab, at the ALPMA Summit Gala dinner in the Gold Coast on Thursday 10 September.