Filling the big chair
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Managing commercial law firms can involve a number of challenges. Professional practices may use a partnership structure, with management, stockholders, sales staff and the production line being the partners. Firms tend to use their own methods, and there is a dearth of common benchmarks. Law firms tend to want new recruits to bring clients, yet do not want to lose clients when individuals leave. Personal client followings may be detrimental to the law firm if this means that clients leave with individuals.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1999
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Contract advice
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James R Knowles provides advice to contractors, and has a good track record. The company is being launched on the United Kingdom Alternative Investment Market with a stock placing valuing it at 16.9 million pounds sterling. The company can offer legal advice as well as quantity surveying, and it has both small and large clients. Overseas subsidiaries account for around a fifth of business. Activity in East Asia could drop, and the company aims to offset this by setting up operations in Europe.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1998
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Who's afraid of the big, bad Woolf?
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There has been a fall in numbersof cases in law courts in Manchester, England, as a result of talk of litigation reforms, strong penalties, and high legal fees. Mediation and other ways of resolving disputes have become more popular. There is some confusion about the reforms, which include a new emphasis on case management by law courts. Mini-trials are also used and involve a day in which the case is previewed in an informal way, with the judge offering an opinion.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1999
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