Commentary
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Opinion
Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters
Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters | Adam Wagner
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Mother in law: How the pandemic changed us
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Flexible working: why it’s time we put our colleagues first
Lizzy Firmin discusses the reasons why East Anglia law firm Ellisons Solicitors has embraced the move to flexible working.
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The pandemic has not reset the culture in law
In too many law firms the mindset is unchanged.
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More is expected of partners than ever before
As senior partners transition into managing their teams and client relationships in a hybrid environment, what have they learned during the pandemic?
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IWD: Hybrid working must not become a catalyst for proximity bias
Is proximity bias the next mountain to climb for gender equality campaigners in the legal sector?
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Our criminal justice system needs major surgery, not a band aid
Recent government initiatives are just more knee-jerk, low-cost solutions to a much bigger problem.
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Check in on your isolating colleagues - they may need it
For those of us in Covid jail, this has been a tough return to work. Don’t expect too much of them.
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Looking after our juniors
Law firms can’t offset the wellbeing issues of junior lawyers by hiking wages.
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Funding ‘emergency’ advice makes fiscal sense
Modest investment in social welfare advice would pay for itself many times over. Is the chancellor listening?
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Rebuilding a brighter future for civil justice
Civil Justice After Covid: A Change for the Better? | Anthony Reeves
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Ban anti-vaxxers from the office? It’s not as simple as that
Efforts to protect law firm staff could backfire if they alienate those forced to come in.
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Living and working with cancer
'The practicalities of not working during my treatment seemed quite appealing on every level. The reality, however, is far from what I expected.'
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Opinion
Hybrid working could create joyless, half-empty offices
Solicitors will look elsewhere if they think their firm has become virtual by default.
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Opinion
Mother in law: Taking personal responsibility
Diary of a busy practitioner, juggling work and family somewhere in England.
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Words – how a right becomes a cost
There's a klaxon going off above the language being used to describe the rights of children with special educational needs and disabilities.
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Opinion
Private Practice v In-House [2021]
Both have their positives and negatives, but what are they really like - and has the pandemic changed perspectives?