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02 December 2022 / Andy Cullwick
Issue: 8005 / Categories: Features , Profession , Legal services , Marketing , Technology
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Law firms: survival of the fittest?

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Andy Cullwick considers how law firms are facing up to an uncertain future, & how they can best adapt to it
  • The latest White Paper from First4Lawyers looks at the big issues affecting law firms and what they are doing to prepare themselves for the difficult year ahead.
  • Whiplash reforms continue to bite, with a quarter of firms exiting the small claims road traffic accident market and more set to follow.
  • Despite the popularity of review sites, just over a third of firms read or respond to what is said about them online.

It’s at this time of year that we start seeing predicted legal trends for the next 12 months. Sadly, the outlook for 2023 is not so much of a prediction as a foregone conclusion. Rising inflation and the impending recession make it likely that the months ahead will be difficult for many, but particularly for law firms in the personal injury (PI) sector, the number of which has dropped significantly

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NEWS
Cheating in driving tests is surging—and courts are responding firmly. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort Law School charts a rise in impersonation and tech-assisted fraud, with 2,844 attempts recorded in a year
As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR
In a striking financial remedies ruling, the High Court cut a wife’s award by 40% for coercive and controlling behaviour. Writing in NLJ this week, Chris Bryden and Nicole Wallace of 4 King’s Bench Walk analyse LP v MP [2025] EWFC 473
A €60.9m award to Kylian Mbappé has refocused attention on football’s controversial ‘ethics bonus’ clauses. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law examines how such provisions sit within French labour law
A seemingly dry procedural update may prove potent. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold explains that new CPR 31.12A—part of the 193rd update—fills a ‘lacuna’ exposed in McLaren Indy v Alpa Racing
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