Rory MccGwire writes, I’ve been asking this question a lot recently because it gets straight to the heart of the changes that we see unfolding in the legal services market. I was gripped by the stream of vitriol on the Law Society Gazette website when it broke the exclusive on the QualitySolicitors (QS) launch last [...]
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Is it all about branding for law firms?
I ask this following the research published recently by Jures, a legal research consultancy that found out of 2,000 people polled, only 26% would shop for a legal service on the basis of a brand name. They commissioned a report called “Shopping Around: What consumers want from the new legal services market“, which can be [...]
Will the Coalition Government Abolish ABSs?
The (excellent) Legal Futures website yesterday reported that either abolition or postponement of the introduction of ABSs is to be discussed by the government following the creation of the “Reducing Regulation Committee”, a Cabinet level committee chaired by Vince Cable. It is reported that both ABSs and the new Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) might [...]
