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10 November 2021
Issue: 7956 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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New model lawyering

Law firm BLM has launched a subscription-based legal support service, which offers clients an alternative way to buy legal services
The service, BLM Clarity, allows clients to purchase blocks of discounted time to be spent on legal issues, with four subscription packages on offer: light, essential executive and bespoke.

The firm said the service would help make legal support more accessible for businesses with unmet or fluctuating legal needs, and was developed following research findings from the Competition and Markets Authority that 83% of small businesses see legal services as out of their reach.

Steve Kuncewicz, BLM partner, said: ‘Hourly fee-based models are still the most common for law firms, which can often prevent businesses from seeking legal support for fear of the clock running faster than they anticipate or not reaching out for help until the last minute.

‘The events of last year created some pressing legal challenges that businesses are still contending with, but it also underlined the need for flexibility in how we work.’

Issue: 7956 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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