Within my earlier post this week on the latest data release from the ONS on Legal Services prices I referenced BigHand 's 2025 Law Firm...

Background The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces a quarterly Services Producer Price Index (SPPI). This contains useful...

For Episode 12 of the Empowering Law Firm Leaders podcast , Darren and I joined Amy Bruce – host and Marketing Director at Osprey...

I made passing reference to a looking at realisation rates as a waterfall in a comment last week Thought it worth expanding on The table...

I paid a plumber by the hour the other week Didn't hate the experience Why? We'd agreed in advance what the likely lower and upper range...

Background The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces a quarterly Services Producer Price Index (SPPI). This contains useful...

It's naïve to think law firms increase headline rates by 10% and that all clients just pay up For certain clients, and certain practice...

Expensive lawyers look to have gone mainstream with the Wall Street Journal reporting on US rates of $2,500 over the weekend But,...

The billable hour and fixed fees can set off a heated debate, but there is one particular fee type that we should all unite behind and...

The table below shows a law firm and a client perspective when pricing a piece of work Too often, we talk about 'cost' without...

I'm not a fan of this framing for a couple of reasons: The work rarely generates a true loss, where delivery costs exceed the fee income,...