Legal action in the world of education

Solicitors play a major role on both sides when it comes to securing places in schools for children with special needs. For a section of the media, litigation against colleges, schools and universities has in recent years become another frontier of the so-called compensation culture. School trips are cancelled and playtimes suspended - so the s...
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Setting up shop: building a new family practice

Lawyers need to be more like entrepreneurs – that was the message legal business guru Professor Stephen Mayson gave during his speech at the Law London 2008 event. And there cannot be anything much more entrepreneurial for a solicitor to do than setting up their own firm. Creating a new law firm was not something I had always wanted to do. The...

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