Author: Kathryn

COVID-19: Issues for businesses

Businesses are having to deal with unprecedented challenges brought on by COVID-19. Below are some of the challenges your business may need to think about. What do the terms of your lease say? Does the National Cabinet's Mandatory ...

Bespoke's COVID-19 Response Team

These are unprecedented times. Bespoke has set up a COVID-19 Response Team to help clients manage the impacts to their business, workforce, supply chains and customers, today and in the months ahead. The Bespoke COVID-19 ...

Legal Market Pulse report

Bespoke: trade mark law experts – GLE Handbook 2017

Restraint of trade thwarted by bonus scheme

Modifications to an employee's incentive scheme and role effectively repudiated his employment contract, leaving his employer powerless to stop him from courting former clients, an appeal court has found. In mid-2016, accountancy firm ...

Pre-employment steps protect company connections

Disputes about company information theft and LinkedIn connection ownership are rife, but can be prevented with steps taken early in the employment relationship, a law specialist says. As social media continues...

Achieving Profitability with Alternative Fee Arrangements

With the increasing prevalence of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) – such as fixed, blended and capped fees and retainers – firms have the ability to increase the client’s perception of value, improve employee satisfaction ...

25 Secrets To Success with Alternative Fee Arrangements

Bespoke is an exciting platform to showcase a new model of law firm. As a pioneer of this NewLaw revolution, Bespoke revolutionises the traditional legal market by combining in-house and private practice principles to provide cost ...

Bespoke announced as winner of Innovative Firms 2016

With a mission to reinvent the law firm, Bespoke has followed through with paradigm-shifting fixed price offerings (including on M&A, workplace investigations, commercial leasing and litigation) by spreading...

Employee restraint of trade: A valuable tool in the social media age

A revolution over the last 10 years, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat have revolutionised the way people socialise and conduct business in the global economy. No social media site has truly captured the professional market...