How solicitors must handle client money
The SRA Accounts Rules keep the money a firm holds for its clients strictly separate from its own. Here is why that ringfence is one of the profession's most important protections.
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Opinion & Analysis
All columns → SASam AllcockFounder & Editor-at-large
When AI can draft anything, reputation is the last moat left
As machines commoditise the mechanics of legal work, trust, brand and named authority become the only differentiators a firm cannot be undercut on.
SASam AllcockFounder & Editor-at-largeThe billable hour isn't dying, but the firms clinging to it are
AI is collapsing the time it takes to do legal work, and firms that still sell time by the hour are quietly pricing themselves out of their own efficiency.
SASam AllcockFounder & Editor-at-largeMost law firms still market like it's 2005, and the sharp ones are quietly eating their lunch
The brochure-and-directory playbook still dominates legal marketing, yet the firms winning the best work have swapped it for something closer to publishing.
