Posts Tagged ‘lawyers’

Lawyers are expensive, particularly if you are in dispute with someone.  However, because prevention does not sell, many small business owners tend not to use lawyers except when they are unfortunate enough to face litigation.  In the meantime, rather than use lawyers to draft any agreements for them, even important ones like terms of business. [...]

In business, contracts and agreements are part of daily life.  Consulting a lawyer to draft all your agreements can be expensive, so in practice, only bigger businesses have the resources to get legal advice every time they need an agreement. As an entrepreneur you will find it necessary to document many of your own agreements, [...]

Reading Legal Bizzle’s very interesting article Revolting pedants made me  uncomfortable as he concluded:  “And I’m happy to say it loud: I’m a pedant, and I’m proud”. Much as I want to agree with Legal Bizzle, I can’t do so given my strong dislike for pedantry.  The word has connotations of officious types who are sticklers [...]

Last week Azrights announced the launch of its trademark registration white labelling solution for law firms.  It is the first comprehensive trademark white labelling service for UK law firms. UK Regulatory considerations The impetus behind it was the Solicitors’ Code of Conduct Rules 8 and 9 which prohibit fee sharing with non lawyers, and regulate [...]

If you are starting up in business, getting the right legal help can be a key to success – especially if you are a creative business.  An effective Intellectual Property strategy to properly structure your IP rights from the beginning really does make a difference to the value of your business as it grows. I [...]

Social media for the legal profession This is part 2 of the blog post ‘Would the Zappos Social Media Policy be Right for you?’ which I began yesterday.  As mentioned there I want to briefly touch on some of the issues law firms may want to bear in mind when devising their social media policies. [...]

Reading Richard Susskind’s book the End of Lawyers I identify myself as already being the sort of lawyer Susskind suggests will become increasingly multi-disciplinary in order to succeed. Susskind describes us as ‘legal hybrids’ and quite different to the lawyers of today who already claim they are deeply steeped in neighbouring disciplines, as project managers, [...]