Jon Hepburn, a founder member of CoreLegal  and Managing Director of Legallybetter Ltd takes a look at the role of comparison sites for law firms – in terms of consumer’s usage for legal advice and other industry sectors, OFR compliance, the new competition and maximising a law firm’s reputation.

In many industry sectors, comparison and review websites are one of the main channels through which a business can connect with its customers. Who hasn’t checked out reviews of a film, book or washing machine before typing in our card details and proceeding to the checkout?

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CoreLegal founder member David Mort, Director at IRN Research (a market research consultancy specialising in advising the legal services sector) provides further findings from IRN’s annual review of the UK legal services market.

First the bad news…..

IRN’s regular review of the UK legal services market (http://www.irn-research.com/news/new-report-on-uk-legal-services-market/) estimated annual growth of just 1.6% in value terms for the sector in 2009, the lowest for many years.

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