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Straight Lines - the dedicated newsletter for employment practitioners

With UK businesses of every size experiencing downward pressure on profits, employment law practitioners cannot expect to be an exception. How do we meet these challenges?

Selling Employment Services - Autumn Seminars for 2016

Straight Solutions are the market leaders in retainer based legal services. Attend one of our Autumn seminars presented by Brian Dunk FCII DipM Chartered Insurer to find out more about selling employment services and how we can help you grow your law firm.

CAB's accused of ramping up claims

Anecdotal evidence suggest Citizens Advice Bureau are conspiring to help claimants avoid ET fees by actively advising them to exaggerate their dispute.

Protect the retainer, not the client?

Straight Solutions enable you to deliver your clients an affordable combination of advice and indemnity.

The Specialists

Straight Solutions specializes in retainer services for law firms under the TLC brand.

Additional fee opportunity

Straight Solutions standard policies include a restrictive covenants extension designed to help and employer enforce or defend employment covenants, provided they are regarded as being reasonable.

Charity begins at home

Analysis of recent claims history tells us that employment claims made by staff working in a charity or not-for-profit environment greatly exceed claims for all other sectors.

Crisis what crisis?

Since Straight Solutions introduced Crisis Communications cover as standard they have seen it add real value to their clients.

Judge's stretch out

Due to the reduced number of claims reaching Tribunal we now regularly see Hearings being stretched by two or three days.

Read all about it

The strongest selling point for retainer-based services is that cost-effective advice and integrated insurance stops the company or the Departmental budget being hit by unexpected claims by employees.