denotes premium content | Nov 21 2008 Regular
posted 7 Mar 2008 in Volume 2 Issue 6
Cover feature: The seeds of change
It has dominated discussion in legal circles since the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) first alluded to the need for legal service reform in its 2001 Competition in the Professions report. Later when Sir David Clementi reiterated the demand for change in his 2004 paper, the discussion turned to debate as critics argued reform would jeopardise the industry and lower the standard of legal service delivery. Yet from the moment the Legal Services Act (LSA) received Royal Assent on 30 October 2007, such opposition ceased to be relevant. The face of the UK legal profession would be changing regardless. Four months on, how are firms preparing themselves for the impending alteration of the legal market and what impact will these changes have on the marketing and business development (BD) professional?
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