When growth starts to stretch the business

More work is usually welcome. But it can place pressure on contracts, cash flow, decision-making and key people surprisingly quickly. Growth does not always arrive as part of a carefully prepared plan. Sometimes a large customer wants to place more work. A new market...

Before you hire your first in-house lawyer, define the legal function

Growing legal demand does not automatically justify a permanent hire. For a business without an internal legal team, the better answer may be a fully outsourced legal function designed around responsibility, executive access and continuity. Legal demand rarely arrives...

A Succinct Guide To COVID-19 Business Funding And Relief

Daily, news reports flow in about how businesses the world over are either taking serious strain or shutting down altogether due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s becoming increasingly imperative for business owners to put their heads down and think of strategies for...

#SALockdown 101: What The Countrywide Lockdown Actually Entails

The situation is real people. We are wading in deep waters in so far as the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned and there doesn’t seem to be any solution to the crisis except one: social distancing and isolation. The World Health Organisation knows this, and the South...

Work And The COVID-19 Crisis: The Legal Implications

Business, and life as we know it, has been strongly altered over the last couple of months. Quite unexpectedly, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the way in which we go about our daily business, and sadly it appears like this is not going to change in the near...