Overcoming the top five operational challenges for UK SME law firms

Osprey Approach‘s guide for SME law firms in the UK looking to navigate key challenges such as rising client expectations, restricted cash flow and more.

|Osprey Approach|

To help us get under the skin of SME law firms in a post-pandemic, hybrid working world, we asked practices to share with us their key operational challenges –the processes and tasks that are most problematic to the running of their firm.

The results have enabled us to do a deep dive into the role that legal tech can play in overcoming the key challenges identified by SME law firms. 

Read on to discover the digital business habits that firms should adopt to address these challenges.

Train your own, grow your firm: the business case for the SQE in SME law firms Case Study

Henna Zafar | Business development manager, BARBRI |
For many of the SME law firms we work with, this autumn is the first time they will support trainees through the SQE. The concerns we hear are consistent — firms don’t feel they know enough about the SQE, most don’t have a learning and development team and partners are already stretched. Those concerns are […]

Is your law firm ready for the next decade?

Chelsea Goldsby | Operations director, Osprey Approach |
Almost half of respondents to research into the Welsh legal sector are uncertain whether their current business model will remain sustainable over the next ten years. For managing partners, it raises important questions about succession, ownership, and retirement, as well as how to fund growth and prepare the firm for its next stage.  The Welsh […]