Perhaps no skill is more valuable for attorneys than the ability to negotiate well. Whether one is concluding a commercial or corporate agreement, resolving disputes over defects or patents, or reaching a deal with a client or colleague, strong negotiation skills will always come in handy. Here are 10 tips to consider.

1. Collabortive v. Competitive. In a collaborative approach the parties seek a win-win solution through cooperation, sharing information and creative…

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From Monday 3^rd December 2012 K2 Legal Support and Millnet are combining staff and resources in order to improve and extend their locally managed, high quality legal and litigation support services.

As the largest independent eDisclosure and litigation support suppliers in the market, both companies have a nationwide client base across the legal, financial and corporate sector.

Committed to delivering the…

Ian Hazeldine, Finance Director

Managing the finances of a law firm, especially in the current climate, is very demanding – but of course I would say that.

However, what went so wrong here? A well respected firm in a fine city, operating in a buoyant market too. And financed by that…

Writing in Unplugged, Daniel Ornstein, Partner in the London office of Proskauer, an international law firm, argues that the government’s proposed reforms to employment law can stimulate economic growth and that the dilution of employment rights they encompass is probably a price worth paying.



On 23 November 2011, Vince Cable announced what have been touted as…

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Many commercial lawyers will in recent years have had to turn their attention to insolvency cases at one time or another. …

Initially, our new Fee Finance business has been targeted at Accountancy Fee Notes but a number of Legal Firms have approached us for Accreditation. Offering Fee Note Finance with a 48 hour turnaround in payout coupled with a tight Credit Management Procedure has provided us with two USP`s.

I am currently discussing this program with the SRA, not for anything else but for official recognition.

Apart from recommendations, I would welcome any guidance…

Mark Manley, Media Law Partner at Brabners Chaffe Street comments:

The King is dead! Long live the … Sun on Sunday? Sunday Sun? Whatever replaces the News of the World (NOTW)?

Not for a moment am I condoning any of the wrongdoings of those responsible at NOTW/News International. Of course not. Seriously infringing the personal and private lives of victims of horrendous criminal offences, the armed services and other…

A historic piece of pop art, once belonging to the late John Lennon, has been returned to its owners 24 years after it went missing.

The artwork, referred to as the “Psychedelic Eye” (the Eye), was personally designed by Lennon when he lived at his Kenwood home in Surrey with Cynthia and Julian.  During his time at Kenwood Lennon recorded some of his most famous work and it was also at such residence that his relationship with Yoko Ono developed.  The Eye consists of over 17,000 small…

Arbitration Clauses in LLP Agreements

 The High Court (Slade J) has handed down its judgment in the very interesting case of Clyde & Co LLP & another v Kristina Bates von Winkelhof concerning the enforceability of arbitration clauses in employment contracts.

Ms Van Winkelhof was a senior equity partner at Clyde & Co LLP, and worked for the in Tanzania and in London. She brought…

Secretary of State for Justice, Ken Clarke, has published a new consultation on reforming Civil Justice in…