Law firm seeks wider client base
Simpson Millar, a large law firm with twelve regional offices across the country, has relocated one of its North West offices to new premises in Albert Docks, Liverpool.
The new premises in the Edwards Pavilion building comes as part of the firm’s plans to become a more well-known business within the North West, both strengthening their existing partnerships and acquiring new ones.
Ian Cohen, national head of personal injury and medical negligence, said: “This move to modern and centralised offices in the city’s beautiful and iconic docks location forms part of our ongoing commitment to providing open, high quality legal services, delivered in an efficient and innovative way to clients across the region.
“As part of this we have invested heavily in our technology that will enable staff to operate remotely, which forms part of our ongoing commitment to promoting wellbeing and flexible working across the firm.”
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The European Court of Justice has ruled that all companies need to measure how long their employees in the EU are working for in a day, in order to properly adhere to working time regulations. We can provide multiple different language packs, to help you fulfil this requirement if you have employees over on the Continent.
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If you rent your premises, as most businesses do and cannot install any extra wiring, your employees can use our web-based attendance recording rather than our physical terminals.
This is called the Self Service Module (SSM), and it allows employees to clock in and out using either a browser version, or a mobile phone app. They can also request holiday using this app, which eliminates the need for cumbersome paper holiday forms.