Once bitten twice shy. That’s the only reason why I can see that there hasn’t been a massive uptake of voice-activated dictation software. If technophobe lawyers can throw away their quills and manage to use it – surely so can everybody else My understanding is that when the technology was relatively new, say 10 years [...]
A couple of years ago we did some research. We found that, on average, our Salisbury office was failing to answer approximately 6 telephone calls every day during working hours. This was despite having 2 receptionists and internal arrangements for other people to answer the main switchboard if reception was busy. That’s a staggering 1500 [...]
Following on from my earlier blog on ”Employment tribunal claims – always worth fighting?”, I have just come across some interesting information from the Employment Tribunal Service statistics which may help you in making a decision whether or not to defend an employment tribunal claim. According to the figures, 82.9% of redundancy compensation claims are successful [...]
Following blogs about lap dancers, tramps and Fair Isle jumpers, the subject of my latest blog is all about the eating habits of our judiciary. According to the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, research done by Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found that the eating habits of their country’s judges had [...]
You thought your sector was doing badly in the current economic climate? It’s just been pointed out to me how very badly the share price of Yell.com is doing. Today a yell.com share is worth just 5.86 compared with 57.6 in April 2010 and 634.50 all the way back in February 2007 i.e. it’s worth [...]
Unsurprisingly, the increase over the last few years in employees rights, have resulted in a responding increase in employment tribunal claims. Although the maximum awards for unfair dismissal compensation and the like are steadily rising, you do need to be aware that there is a significant investment required in actually defending such a claim – [...]
Readers of this blog who know me, won’t be surprised to hear me enthusing about dedicated micro sites. I’ve been building a stable of these dedicated legal sites for some time now and my target is to use them to produce additional work for my law firm of around £400,00 every year. The 1st site [...]
Employees skiving off on Friday afternoon costs British business £50m every year- what can you do about it?
Do the rough sleepers of the City of London have something to teach ?
Cast-iron proof that entrepreneurs are truly mad