At Inksters we held our Forward Thinking Law Conference in the Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow over two days this past week. It has been an annual event for many years now but this was the first one post pandemic. So there had, as a result of Covid-19, been a three year gap. It was great…
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On 4 January 2013 Inksters pivoted to being a fee-sharing law firm in Scotland. Certainly one of the very earliest law firms to do so in Scotland. Accordingly, that is what we do 10 years later. Today Inksters is the only legal practice operating a fee-share consultancy model in Scotland at scale. Inksters has a…
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At a reception at Bute House last night, the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, got to hear about Inksters‘ Plug & Play Law model from Brian Inkster. The reception was to recognise the achievements of small businesses across Scotland. FSB Celebrating Small Business Award Winners FSB Celebrating Small Business Award Winners from 2020 and 2022 came…
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23 years ago today I set up a law firm on my own account. I called it Inksters, after me. That is what you did back then, when law firm names were invariably linked with their founders. But at least I didn’t call it Inkster & Co. In the Beginning It started life just with…
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Inksters won the Scottish Self-employed / Sole Trader of the Year Award at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Celebrating Small Business Awards in Edinburgh on Thursday. The award recognises the “tenacity and drive that it takes to go it alone”. Brian Inkster set up Inksters as a sole trader in 1999. 23 years later…
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Inksters are finalists in the Scottish heat of this year’s FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards. This is in the self-employed/sole trader of the year category. Brian Inkster set up Inksters as a sole trader in 1999. 23 years later and Brian is still a sole trader. Inksters now has 9 employees and 17 other sole…
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Yesterday another English law firm set up shop in Scotland claiming to be the first fee-sharing law firm ever to operate north of Hadrian’s Wall. This was first claimed, also wrongly, by one of their English competitors back in May of this year. We have again contacted the publications where these erroneous claims have been…
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It was amusing to see today a newly established law firm in Scotland, spun out from an English one, claim to be “the first fee-share law firm in Scotland” as they launch with just one consultant solicitor in the country. Ahem… Fee-share law firms are certainly not new to Scotland. Inksters have been doing just…
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From today, after 22 years in business, Inksters are concentrating purely on the consultancy business model. A model that Inksters first started to move towards over 8 years ago. Inksters transition is now complete to a law firm where all solicitors benefit financially directly from the fruits of their own labours. Inksters no longer have…
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Following the official launch of Plug & Play Law the news was reported at insider.co.uk (the online sister website of Scottish Business Insider, Scotland’s oldest business magazine) with the headline “Maverick lawyer launches radical new collective-style business model”. The article went on to say:- The entrepreneurial lawyer and Twitter aficionado Brian Inkster, an advocate for…
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