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UK Blawg Roundup #7 – and the future of legal blogging
The British blawg / law blog Welcome to the June 2011 UK Blawg review, a quarterly round up of British Blawgs (legal blogs) and discussion. In the last Blawg Reivew, Brian Inkster took the past as his theme. Speaking from his newly materialised Time Blawg, he took us on a journey back into the mists…
The turn of the year – and the start of a decade
A new year today, nay, a new decade. 2011. A hundred years ago my grandmother was 7, in those last few years before the Great War. I very much hope that this century we can avoid such horrors and remain, more or less, at peace. In my life there are a number of new things. …
The Quality Solicitors Brand – a formula for the future?
This article was first published in the Internet Newsletter. See also the interviewes on which it was based in the posts below. There can be very few solicitors unaware of the arrival of the Quality Solicitors brand on the legal landscape. With their pink and black colours, launch parties, and snazzy advertising, they have made…
Tom Bridge on Quality Solicitors
Tom Bridge of QualitySolicitors Stephensons in Wigan, is the third of the three QualitySolicitors solicitors who provided background information for my article for the Internet Newsletter (to be published shortly). Here are his answers: 1 How would you describe your firm – very briefly We are a foward thinking modern law firm who’s brand value…
Warren Robertson on Quality Solicitors
Warren Robertson of QualitySolicitors Howlett Clarke in Brighton, is the second of the three QualitySolicitors solicitors who provided background information for my article for the Internet Newsletter (to be published shortly). Here are his answers: 1. How would you describe your firm – very briefly We are a medium high street practice with two offices…
Richard Swaine on Quality Solicitors
Richard Swaine of QualitySolicitors Lockings in Hull, is one of the three QualitySolicitors solicitors who provided background information for my article for the Internet Newsletter (to be published shortly). Here are his answers: 1 How would you describe your firm – very briefly QualitySolicitors Lockings is a High Street practice with offices in the heart…
Craig Holt on Quality Solicitors
Last year I wrote an article about Quality Solicitors for the Internet Newsletter. As Quality Solicitors have moved on since then, I was asked this August, if I would write an updating article. This I did and the article will be published later. However the responses I got from both Craig Holt and the other…
LawNet – stronger together
This article was first published in the January/February edition of the Internet Newsletter. In this short series I have looked at Quality Solicitors, a very new player run by a barrister for solicitors, and Contact Law, a non solicitor run organisation which started in 2005. LawNet is very different from both of these. Started in…
Don’t trust the government when planning your career
Three stories have struck me in the news today. The HIPS disaster HIPs were introduced in about 2007 I think as a way to ‘speed up’ conveyancing. Practically every conveyancer I have ever spoken to has said that it was ill conceived and would do little if nothing to help conveyancing delays. Did the government…
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