Blogs
The UK Interim Lawyer Market April 2026
Intelligence, Trends & the Case for Embedded Legal Expertise — April 2026
Q1 Interim Lawyer Secondment Market Overview
An overview of the UK interim lawyer secondment market in Q1 2026, covering SJP's activity across 30+ assignments, the structural shift away from law firm secondees, and trends shaping flexible legal resourcing in financial services, technology, and private capital.
Interim Lawyer secondments in 2026: how legal leaders can reduce spend whilst increasing quality
Discover how interim lawyer secondments help General Counsel reduce legal spend by 20–40% while increasing quality, flexibility, and diversity of talent.
SJP November Interim Lawyer Market Update
The Stephen James Partnership (SJP) is pleased to report that November marked another record month for our Interim division, driven by sustained client demand and a rapidly evolving UK labour market
Interim Lawyers September Market Overview
Why In-House legal teams are ditching legacy ALSPs and Biglaw
SJP’s July 2025 Interim Lawyer pulse
SJP has observed significant shifts in the interim legal market through July 2025, with evolving client priorities and competitive pressures shaping hiring behaviours across sectors.
Why In-House Teams Are Rethinking ‘BigLaw’
The Legal Industry’s Quiet Crisis
ED&I Fatigue, Vol 2.
Examining the mounting threat to affirmative action in the US and its potential influence on UK corporate policy.
ED&I Fatigue? It's no wonder...
In his book ‘Capitalist Realism’ the political and cultural theorist Mark Fisher discusses the pervasive sense that in modern society, the representation of reality has become more important than reality itself. Or, as Fisher puts it, how “all that is solid melts into PR”.