Risk analysis
The SRA’s director of risk explains why the Risk Outlook is important and how solicitors can influence its development.
Medical negligence lawyers face gloomy prognosis
Changes to civil litigation funding and costs are beginning to bite in the clinical negligence sector.
Lawyers in the line of fire
Lawyers across the globe are being murdered, unlawfully detained or assaulted for going about their work of representing clients.
How To: run a ‘virtual firm’
Solicitors looking to work in a dispersed law firm are usually motivated by the same driving forces: a desire for greater flexibility and money, and a need for good support and infrastructure.
Why firms need to partner up
Pressure on law firms renders mergers a necessity.
Co-op: the difference a year makes
Last week’s SRA warning of the ‘group contagion’ threat looks even more timely.
Diversity is about standards
The issue in law is clearly not one of aspirations that need ‘lifting’.
Leader: forcing the issue on pro bono
The expectation that pro bono, one of the more impressive parts of the ‘Big Society’, can pick up where £300m of civil legal aid cuts left off is fanciful.
Sky Courts One?
Victims, witnesses and offenders will continue to be protected in televised court proceedings – but for how long?
Meso U-turn undermines all PI reforms
It seems the government does not have the stomach to deal with mesothelioma as it does with other PI claims.
EU criminal law: a full programme
There has been a mixed reaction to the latest round of EU recommendations and directives.
Big brother’s little helpers
The UK and US are far from alone in getting businesses to do their snooping dirty work.
China, Cameron and sausages
A Devon food producer was on the list of those on a trade trip to China. But where were the law firms?
Law firms face steep tax hike
Cumulative effect of reforms will lead to sharp rise in bills for many.
BOOK REVIEW: Stephen Ward was Innocent, OK
The Profumo scandal has been so well picked over, a book that adds to our understanding is a surprise – but that is exactly what it does.
