Resumen de Back-office questions to the fore
We're breaking new ground today with our first-ever detailed analysis of trends relating to legal market business services professionals.
In particular the UK 200: Business Services report examines in exhaustive detail staffing ratios between business services staff and fee-earners. In doing so it reveals clues as to how the UK market is becoming increasingly professional.
Frankly, it couldn't be more topical. Any number of trends underscore the way the UK market is becoming relentlessly more businesslike. The growing use of outsourcers; the moves of firms like DLA Piper to launch follow-the-sun back-office centres around the world; the ending of the post-recession slash and burn measures targeted at business services teams, replaced by renewed investment in non-fee-earning staff as firms look to free up their lawyers
