Small is beautiful
Article Abstract:
Law firms in Leeds, England, have tended to increase in size, and smaller law firms may be overlooked, but can provide particular advantages for some clients. These smaller firms include Read Hind Stewart, Ford and Warren, Brooke North, and Lupton Fawcett. Smaller firms can offer a more personal relationship with the same people involved in complete transactions. Some law firms have sought to focus on corporate work and have shed other types of work such as criminal law. Regulators have started to use criminal law, so law firms have an advantage if they can offer such a specialty.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1997
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The price of advice
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Law firms in Manchester, England, can classify work into three types. There is commodity work, much of which can be automated, like debt collection. Added-value work is affected by competition from other firms, and rocket science involves the specialist knowledge of particular law firms. Hourly rates tend not to reflect the value of work carried out to cleints and can reflect a reactive approach taken by law firms. Law firms can also offer cost savings in return for a proportion of the saving to the client.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1997
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Leaders of the pack
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The main law firms in Manchester, England, are likely to have to link up with international accountancy or law firms in order to prevent business beig lost to London. Addleshaw Booth and Co is seen as the Manchester firm that London law firms find most attractive for a link. Outsider may underestimate the extent to which other law firms have changed, and they include Dibb Lupton Alsop which has strong international links in Hong Kong and Brussels, Belgium.
Publication Name: Investors Chronicle
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0261-3115
Year: 1998
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