by Brian O'Neill | 31 Jan, 2021 | Business, News
Price Transparency Guidance has been introduced by the Law Society of Scotland and affects all law firms who provide “consumer facing” legal work. The guidance came into force on 31 January 2021. That means most high street law firms will need to disclose their fees...
by Brian O'Neill | 24 Aug, 2020 | News
Lawyers are great at being lawyers – but sometimes even the most basic concepts pass them by. If you want to retain existing clients you need to start thinking like a business person! Is this what happens in your law firm? When a case concludes, the fee is taken and...
by Brian O'Neill | 30 Sep, 2019 | News
About five years ago we concluded there was a space in the market for a solicitors’ organisation to present a caring approach to older people. We also felt if we took the message to our older community that preparing for the future was good and sensible this would be...
by Brian O'Neill | 24 May, 2019 | Data Privacy and Management, News
One of my clients recently sent me a request he’d received from Police Scotland. It asked him to provide an address for one of his clients. Interestingly, they pointed out the disclosure qualified as a GDPR exemption. The word “OFFICIAL” – BOLD, UPPERCASE and in...
by Brian O'Neill | 6 Mar, 2019 | Data Privacy and Management
There was a massive rush to get everything in place by the 25 May deadline last year when the General Data Protection Regulation and the latest Data Protection Act came into force. Before the deadline law firms took various positions from “this doesn’t apply to me”...
