Category: Tips Guides Advice

Ultimate guide to legal cashiering #4: Is outsourcing the answer?

The final instalment in our 'Ultimate guide to legal cashiering' blogs casts a lens on how best to manage your legal accounting function, outlines the benefits of outsourcing, shows how to pick the right supplier and presents the top takeaways from the full series.

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Ultimate guide to legal cashiering #3: Busting the myths & why experience counts

The third in our 'Ultimate guide to legal cashiering' blog series cuts straight to the truth by outlining common misconceptions and explaining why having a qualified legal cashier running your accounting function in vital.

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Ultimate guide to legal cashiering #2: Tips and traps

We're continuing our 'Ultimate guide to legal cashiering' blog series with an overview of the main traps for legal cashiers, primary issues around accounting regulations and examples of law firms who've breached legal accounts rules - plus how to avoid the same mistakes at your law firm.

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Ultimate guide to legal cashiering #1: The basics

We're kicking off our 'Ultimate guide to legal cashiering' blog series, adapted from our new e-book, with a brief introduction to the cashiering process including the key regulations in force, what's at risk by getting your cashiering wrong and the main responsibilities of your legal cashier.

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Protect your law firm: Tips, tricks and traps in legal cashiering

To get to grips with all the tips, tricks and traps that keep your law firm on the right side of the law, regulatory compliant and reputable, read our latest legal cashiering guidance. We cover everything from busting the myths, to understanding the risks, to protecting your practice by getting your cashiering right.

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2022 legal forms news: how to submit digital Land Registry AP1 forms online

From November 2022, AP1 forms must be submitted to the Land Registry online, here's how to do it within Quill Forms. Here's how you can submit, manage, and monitor your digital AP1 forms online using Quill's form technology.

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6 telltale signs it’s time to change your legal practice management software

The practice management legal software industry is rapidly changing and with it, new features are being launched all the time. Is your current vendor an innovator or a laggard?

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The 7 secrets to mastering difficult conversations

Difficult conversations in the workplace are inevitable, but they can become destructive if not dealt with effectively, and law firms are no different. Here's a recap from our helpful CPD webinar on how to learn the art of mastering difficult conversations. Be sure to also take The Training Rock’s Trait Test!

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LinkedIn Best Practices on Networking for Legal Professionals (from a novice!)

Read on for Quill MD Julian Bryan's article on five tips on how law professionals can better network and engage on LinkedIn

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5 tips for best money handing practices and SRA compliance by legal accounts software and outsourced cashiering experts

Here are our top five tips for best money handling practices and SRA compliance to help you out, based on our recent chat with Karen Heggie, legal technical lead at Quill from our ‘MoneyChain: 5 steps to secure money transfers’ webinar.

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Turning the tide: how to take a data-driven approach to employee wellbeing in the legal industry

Hear what Julian Bryan, MD of Quill had to say around taking a data-centric approach to understanding employee wellbeing for those in the legal industry, using tools like Best Companies and Quilldex.

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Professional indemnity insurance renewal: Advice and tips for law firms

Buying and renewing professional indemnity insurance can be a loathsome process. Lengthy, costly and even more stressful in the light of Covid’s impact. If you're currently reviewing your PII insurance, read on for Quill’s advice on how to make the renewal process as smart, easy and cost-effective as possible.

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