The Briefer Archive

Will AI finally kill the billable hour? The rise of value-based pricing
Glenn Rhea | Sales director at OneAdvanced | 15.07.2025
The billable hour has long dominated law firm pricing models. However, as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes legal work, this traditional approach faces increasing scrutiny. Clients are demanding transparency and fairness, while AI’s ability to speed up routine tasks is challenging hourly billing. As such, are law firms now exploring value-based pricing and alternative fee arrangements […]

Is your PMS holding your SME law firm back?
Tessaract | | 15.07.2025
A comprehensive assessment of your practice management system’s (PMS) performance can take some planning and effort. So before diving headlong into it, it’s probably a good idea to first gauge if your PMS is in line with modern standards and expectations to highlight any glaring challenges worth worrying about. With this in mind, we’ve put […]

How future-focused firms are developing tomorrow’s legal leaders
Jonathan Worrell | director of business development at BARBRI | 14.07.2025
The SQE isn’t the end goal, it’s simply the entry point. The real measure of success is what comes next: honing solicitors who think commercially, lead confidently and stay for the long-term. In a competitive legal market, where expectations are evolving and retention pressures are growing, firms that treat early careers as a long-term investment […]