Year: 2009

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Solnick LLP, based in Chiswick, West London was founded in 1984 and has seven fee earners. We have established ourselves as a large law firm in a miniature package, often punching above our weight. In the late 1990s we developed a speciality in employment law and now have a team of three dedicated employment lawyers, […]

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Fax to email for lawyers

When I left the CPS in 1996 and set up as an independent barrister it was essential to get a fax machine which dutifully sat in my home office waiting for faxes from Chambers. Since it shared the same line with my home phone it became something of a curse; if the phone rang during […]

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The future of lawyers

In his new book The End of Lawyers? (Oxford University Press) Richard Susskind challenges the legal profession to ask what elements of their current work could be undertaken more quickly, more cheaply, more efficiently or to a higher quality using new methods. He makes his case firstly by mapping the path that almost all legal […]

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