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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...

Law firm bucks trend by offering clients fixed fee legal services

A local law firm is bucking the trend in the way it charges clients for legal services.   Whipping the Cat aims to differentiate themselves by charging clients based on a fixed-fee, rather than a traditional hourly-rate.   CEO and Founder Grame Wilson spoke...

Making way for NewLaw in Africa

South African Graeme Wilson, founder and chief executive of Whipping the Cat, has done that by creating a new formula for offering legal services that seems more tailored to Africa’s entrepreneurial needs than the established way of doing things.   It was...

Young Lawyers Should Not Fear Technology

We speak to the CEO of Heavy Chef’s legal partner Whipping The Cat, Graeme Wilson. 2017 has been a big year for Graeme, with significant growth, client acquisition and multiple prestigious awards under his belt. The legal profession is changing rapidly, so we...

Artificial Intelligence Is Now Disrupting The Legal Services Industry

What is going ON in the legal service world? Law firms with names like Bell, Dewar and Hall, John & Kernick and Findlay and Tait used to be all over the place. Now they don’t even exist. Instead we hear names like Caveat Legal, Cognia Law and even Whipping...