scholarly journals Razlikovanje uslovnih od kumulativnih naknada advokata: uporedna studija procene rizika osiguravača u parnici u Velikoj Britaniji i SAD

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-65
Author(s):  
Zia AKHTAR
Keyword(s):  
Civil Litigation ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Legal Provision ◽  
After Effects ◽  
Litigation Process ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk

The Conditional Fee Agreements in the UK and the Contingency Fee in the US for legal retainers can be distinguished by their risk lawyers take even if they both allow law firms to be stakeholders in the litigation process. The introduction of the conditional fee agreements (CFI) in England enabled a framework of civil litigation that could be relied upon where the cause of action could not be financed by the client. There was an element of risk involved which the insurance company had to calculate and the Jackson Reforms were responsible for effective management of litigation through the introduction of costs budgeting. While the after effects insurance was abolished the various forms of CFI could facilitate the insured litigant. This has been harmonised by a consumer based legal provision in the UK that is the priority of the Legal Services Act 2007. The comparison needs to drawn with the contingency fee agreement offered by US firms that have encouraged litigation and allow the losing party to forfeit costs when losing their case. The argument of this paper is to retain both these form of agreements in their respective jurisdictions but to retain the flexibility of allowing out of court settlements.

Knowledge as a Revenue Driver, Not a Cost Centre: the LexisNexis GLP and How to Use Market Intelligence to Make Knowledge a Vital Growth Engine for Law Firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
Christopher O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Measure ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Market Intelligence ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Marketing Team ◽  
Virtual Conference ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Individual Metrics ◽  
Legal Product

AbstractThis article by the LexisNexis Segment Marketing team explains the approach, methodology and findings of the LexisNexis Gross Legal Product (GLP) report, first presented at the BIALL's Virtual Conference in June 2020. The GLP is a quantitative measure of underlying demand for legal services in the UK, comprised of 250 individual metrics which serve as proxies for legal activity. The article outlines the methodology and sources used to build the GLP; headline findings for Q2 2020 YTD; and provides suggestions for how firm leaders and knowledge professionals could use the information in their work. The GLP Q2 model found that demand for legal activity has declined by 7% since the start of 2020.

Notes from a Library Country

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Doe
Keyword(s):  
International Finance ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
The Us ◽  
Corporate Securities ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
The Uk

You will all have noticed the proliferation of US law firms with offices in the UK, mainly London. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood (SABW) was formed in May 2001 as a result of a merger and is currently the second largest US law firm office in London (27 partners, 85 fee earners, 3 full-time library staff, one part timer, one freelance.) Like most of the US firms in London SABW concentrates on financial and corporate work — international finance, corporate securities, capital markets, tax and property.

Delivering Library Services in an MDP Environment

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hewson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Services ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Tax Practice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Professional Services Firm ◽  
Research Service

The MDP environment in which I work is the professional services firm of Andersen. I am the manager of the combined research service for Andersen's UK Tax practice and the Andersen Legal law firms in the UK. Andersen Legal in the UK is the firm of Garretts in England and Dundas & Wilson in Scotland. Andersen Legal practices share knowledge, resources and technology to offer a broad range of legal services to clients around the world.

The re-landscaping of the legal profession: Large law firms and professional re-regulation

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Flood
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Market ◽  
The Uk ◽  
City Of London ◽  
Global Law ◽  
The City ◽  
The Eu

The size and scope of global law firms has made them difficult to encompass within a single regulatory jurisdiction. As the UK government sought to take control of the legal profession and market by removing self-regulation and introducing external regulation under the Legal Services Act, the large law firms were able to countermand the new regime. Through a combination of associations like CityUK, the City of London Law Society, as well as through individual firms, large law firms lobbied successfully to reinstate a new form of self-regulation known as AIR. The elites of the legal profession constructed a new logic of professionalism that accorded with the firms’ ideologies and government’s market-oriented objectives. Further attempts to consolidate their position at the EU and at the GATS levels are still in negotiation. Despite the legal market shifting to a more diffuse combination of actors, of which lawyers are only a segment, elite law firms have apparently strengthened their hold.

scholarly journals An Invitation Regarding Law and Legal Education, and Imagining the Future

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Madison
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Law Professors

This Essay consists of an invitation to participate in conversations about the future of legal education in ways that integrate rather than distinguish several threads of concern and revision that have emerged over the last decade. Conversations about the future of legal education necessarily include conversations about the future of law practice, legal services, and law itself. Some of those start with the somewhat stale questions: What are US law professors doing, what should they be doing, and why? Those questions are still relevant and important, but they are no longer the only relevant questions, and they are not the only places to start. What about other legal educators, meaning those who teach and train in legal services worlds but who don’t teach the professional practice of law or the delivery of traditional legal services? What about those who are involved deeply in the production and distribution of law, legal services, and legal information but who are not, themselves, lawyers? Why start with current teachers; why not start with current or future students, or current or future clients, or current or future institutions, or current or future sets of values? Expand the communities of interest and identities of potential participants not only beyond elite US law schools, and not only beyond the private law firms that constitute BigLaw, but also beyond the US and beyond North America. The invitation goes out, in short, to a much broader audience than US law professors, and it is framed in broad but pragmatic terms.

Institutional Legacies and Firm Dynamics: The Growth and Internationalization of UK and German Law Firms

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 1765-1785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Morgan ◽  
Sigrid Quack
Keyword(s):  
German Law ◽  
Firm Dynamics ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Institutional Legacies ◽  
Path Modification

This article addresses the question of how economic actors (re)shape their organizational and institutional contexts as their activities internationalize. By focusing on law firms, we choose a professional activity that has been regarded as highly determined by the national distinctiveness of professional and legal systems and would lead us to expect strong institutional legacies on firm dynamics. The comparative study of the growth and internationalization of corporate law firms in the UK and Germany presented in this article, however, refutes this view. The results reveal that in both settings ‘institutional pockets’ of corporate lawyers existed whose entrepreneurial orientations and international reach were much stronger than among other subgroups of the profession. From the 1970s onwards, these lawyers and law firms engaged in redefining their organizational and institutional contexts with the aim of positioning themselves in ways that would allow them to seize upon the emerging international markets for legal services. They did so in different ways and at different times in each country. We conclude that internationalization of UK and German law firms bears traces of institutional legacies as well as signs of path-modification, and that international markets for legal services may be more differentiated and less dominated by Anglo-Saxon law firms and conceptions of law than has been so far recognized.

Legal Records at Risk: Does the Legal Profession Care about Preserving its Heritage? And What Could be Done to Rescue Private Sector Legal Records?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Cowling
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis article is written by Clare Cowling, Director, Legal Records at Risk Project, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Her article explores the hypothesis that modern private sector legal records are more at risk of loss than their historical equivalents. There are many reasons for this, but one factor, detailed in this article, appears to be the indifference or reluctance of legal practitioners themselves. The LRAR project seeks to allay any concerns practitioners may have about confidentiality and to raise their awareness of the potential commercial and historic value of their legal records. It will do this by a combination of case studies, interviews with stakeholders and investigations into the current information management and archiving practices of institutions specialised to law. In so doing it will provide guidance and advice on the more cost-effective management and preservation of legal records so that the history of change to non-governmental legal services in the UK over the past century will be accurately documented.

‘To see oursels as ithers see us’: Reflections on Scottish Independence from the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Euan Hague ◽  
Alan Mackie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Scottish Diaspora

The United States media have given rather little attention to the question of the Scottish referendum despite important economic, political and military links between the US and the UK/Scotland. For some in the US a ‘no’ vote would be greeted with relief given these ties: for others, a ‘yes’ vote would be acclaimed as an underdog escaping England's imperium, a narrative clearly echoing America's own founding story. This article explores commentary in the US press and media as well as reporting evidence from on-going interviews with the Scottish diaspora in the US. It concludes that there is as complex a picture of the 2014 referendum in the United States as there is in Scotland.

Identity Politics and Migration

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Vytis Čiubrinskas
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Current ◽  
Respective Host

The Centre of Social Anthropology (CSA) at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas has coordinated projects on this, including a current project on 'Retention of Lithuanian Identity under Conditions of Europeanisation and Globalisation: Patterns of Lithuanian-ness in Response to Identity Politics in Ireland, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US'. This has been designed as a multidisciplinary project. The actual expressions of identity politics of migrant, 'diasporic' or displaced identity of Lithuanian immigrants in their respective host country are being examined alongside with the national identity politics of those countries.

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