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There’s been a lot of talk about flexibility in the legal profession over the past few years. For a while, it sat in that category of ideas that sounded good in theory but felt harder to apply in practice. That’s shifted.

There’s no shortage of conversation in legal practice about improvement. The hot topics include new systems, new technology, new ways of working. But in most firms, what makes the biggest difference day to day isn’t the big changes. It’s something much simpler. It’s how work actually moves through the practice. Most systems don’t fall apart all at once. It’s usually a gradual shift. A few files saved differently here and there. Shortcuts taken when things get busy. Processes that made sense...

For a long time, locum lawyers were seen as a short-term fix. Someone you called when things got busy, or when a gap appeared unexpectedly and needed to be filled quickly. That still happens, but it’s no longer the full picture. More firms are starting to approach locum support differently. Not just as something to rely on when pressure builds, but as part of how they plan around it in the first place. Part of that shift comes down to the way legal work actually flows. It rarely follows a...