Imagine dashing to an office fax machine to make sure a confidential document isn’t seen by others; not having your own work computer; asking a pool of secretaries on typewriters to type up a document; posting out a handwritten witness statement and waiting for the amends days later.
The directors at Wake Smith are delighted to announce that from January 26, 2016 all our professional legal and administrative teams will be based at our prestigious new office in Sheffield city centre. We spent…
Property is a valuable asset that can be an attractive target for fraudsters. Recent cases have been reported which highlight a scam involving a tenant who takes a tenancy of a property, then legally changes their…
The way society views marriage is changing, the marriage rate has been in slow decline, couples are marrying later and are more concerned about what might happen if they divorce. The latest figures suggest that…
2015 has seen growing business confidence and many sectors becoming more commercially active than has been the case for a while. With this confidence, as the economy improves, it's quite easy for businesses to fall…
Did you know that when a person makes a donation to charity, their brain acts to reward them in a similar way to when having sex or eating chocolate? Medical technology studies have shown that when people donate…
Nick Lambert from our Property Litigation Team takes a look at the current trend for basement extensions. Such extensions are often controversial. When a basement extension is planned the Party Wall Act 1996 will…
Sheffield law firm Wake Smith is celebrating 25 years of hosting its city-based business lunch club. The company, which hosts a broad events programme every year, started the triannual initiative back in 1990 as…
