United Kingdom: Law Practice Management

Many of Shepherd and Wedderburn's clients who are engaged in philanthropy choose to do so anonymously.

The 34th edition of our Global Survey of Accounting Assumptions for Defined Benefit Plans comprises 1,000 companies in 47 countries.

SAO's can incur personal fines if they fail to comply with their obligations. The SAO must give HMRC a certificate each financial year stating whether the company had appropriate tax accounting...

Somewhere in your organisation, an employee is using AI right now. They may be drafting emails with it, summarising documents, screening CVs, or feeding client data into a tool whose privacy settings nobody has checked. Most businesses have reached this point without a policy, without training, and without any clear picture of what that exposure looks like.

Every law firm founder I coach eventually asks me some version of the same question: what's actually holding the firm back? They assume the answer lives in a process gap, a hiring mistake, or a strategy that needs sharpening. Sometimes it does. But in the vast majority of cases, tactics and systems account for maybe 20% of what separates a firm that's stuck from a firm that's compounding.

In this episode of In the Action, host Eva Davis sits down with London Partner Gemma Grunewald to discuss why she chose Winston Taylor and the career experiences that shaped her leadership approach.

The aerospace and defence sector faces a critical workforce challenge: how to attract, develop and retain talent in an era of rapid technological change and geopolitical uncertainty. With skills shortages intensifying and demand for specialist expertise growing, organisations must rethink their approach to building adaptable, diverse teams capable of delivering innovation across emerging technologies and complex operational environments.

Understanding the UK Home Office's "genuine vacancy" requirement is critical for Skilled Worker visa applications. This article examines how employers can demonstrate that a sponsored role truly exists and wasn't created primarily to facilitate immigration, exploring key evidence factors from company size and financial health to recruitment records and family connections.

The Open University's latest Business Barometer report uncovers how persistent skills shortages across UK organisations are creating ripple effects on employee wellbeing and operational capacity. The research examines employer perspectives on retention strategies, recruitment challenges, and training investments, while investigating whether young talent could provide solutions to the widening skills gap.

Gartner’s latest prediction landed last week with a headline that legal technology vendors will be quoting for years: legal tech budgets will double by 2028. If you are a GC, managing partner, or director of legal operations, you are probably already fielding calls from vendors who want to be part of that spending.

In the bustling world of legal practices, where many documents could be the linchpin of a case, efficient document management is not just a convenience — it’s a necessity. Yet, many law firms find themselves entangled in the chaos of outdated document management practices and systems, where vital information is often buried in physical file cabinets or lost in disorganized digital folders scattered across multiple applications.

AI adoption in legal has crossed a threshold that should prompt every firm leader to ask a harder question. According to the Wolters Kluwer 2026 Future Ready Lawyer Survey of 810 lawyers, 92% of respondents now use at least one AI tool in their daily workflow, with more than half reporting time savings of 6–20% of their work week and 60% expecting their organization’s AI investment to grow over the next three years.