Mike Doherty explains why today's litigators should, where possible, try to guide their clients down a more pro-active, dispute avoidance route.

Solicitors Wake Smith and MD Law have helped a sports organisation and five city sports enthusiasts secure investment and a venue to bring the first dedicated indoor Padel racquet sport venue to Sheffield.

The latest insights from the 2024 SME Valuation Index reveal encouraging news for businesses exploring sales or acquisitions, with significant opportunities emerging in the UK mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape.

Recent news stories around Max George, a former boy band member, who feared he would die and made a Will on his phone, prompted Wake Smith Solicitors’ private client team highlight the correct law around this matter.

The assisted dying bill begins the next parliamentary stage at the end of this January 2025. Jennifer Robinson, solicitor in the private client team at Wake Smith Solicitors, explains what happens next.

Amanda Cowley, director in the conveyancing team at Wake Smith Solicitors looks at the upcoming changes to Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and how home buyers should act quickly.

The mother of a man who suffered a fatal fall after his pharmacy left an IOU for his out of stock prescribed epilepsy medicine has now asked Wake Smith Solicitors’ clinical negligence team to take on the case and an investigation has commenced into claims for medical negligence, and under the Human Rights Act 1998.

Ahead of Lunar New Year 2025, Wake Smith private client associate Stephanie Chung looks at the popular tradition of gifting red envelopes and how it can be done within the inheritance rules.

A recent case saw the High Court deem a Will valid despite being written on two cardboard food packets.

A mum of two has won a sex discrimination case after her boss accused her of 'skiving' off while she was looking after her young children.