All Law Gazette articles in 2 August 2021 – Page 11
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News
Foot Anstey welcomes 'Most Enterprising Law Graduate' for work experience
Ayesha Faraj Al-Nuaimi was awarded the accolade from the University of Plymouth.
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Work where you want, Womble Bond Dickinson tells staff
Transatlantic firm says working from home has not affected productivity or client service.
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Hourly rates rebuff for non-London commercial firms
Master of rolls to consider proposed rises in guideline rates frozen since 2010.
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Coalition of lawyers unveils ‘universally standardised’ NDA
The new template is designed to improve the efficiency of legal teams and increase transparency.
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Costs judge concerned by 'exceptionally large' rise in firm's hourly rates
Firm to appeal master's decision which 'raises an important issue for the profession'.
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Feature
Testing times
With less than a month to go until the SQE becomes the route to qualification, many unanswered questions remain about its operation and likely impact.
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Feature
Right-to-work regime
The Home Office has issued new right-to-work guidance as the Brexit transitional arrangements for EU workers in the UK came to an end on 30 June 2021.
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Profile
Strength in numbers
Metamorph, the new owner of QualitySolicitors, claims to be revolutionising legal services. Executive chair Tony Stockdale tells Eduardo Reyes why the consolidator is prospering when so many other ‘game-changers’ have faded away.
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Profile
My legal life: Rachel O’Connor, Michelmores
Rachel O’Connor is a partner at Michelmores, Bristol
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Setting the standards for lawtech
Both the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Law Society made significant announcements last week about promoting and regulating technology. What happens next?
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Opinion
The future’s orange
‘Cutbacks are being made across the criminal justice system, with a massive shortfall in the court service budget and prison reform groups saying efficiency savings are crippling attempts at rehabilitation.’
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Feature
Decisions and interventions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
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Opinion
Must-have criminal guide
Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod’s Text, Cases, and Materials on Criminal Law (13th edition)
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News
Court in a heatwave
Obiter is grateful to the reader who got in touch to lament the ‘intolerable’ conditions at Westminster Magistrates’ Court during last month’s heatwave.
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Opinion
Essential Law for Cemetery and Crematorium Managers
V. Charles Ward£39, independently published Since Davies’ Law of Burial, Cremation and Exhumation in 2002, burial and cremation law has moved on. Essential Law covers a range of subjects, including the Local Authorities’ Cemeteries Order 1977, Victorian burial statutes, and cremation legislation. Among its appendices ...
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Opinion
Julian Assange: peering through the murk
If Assange is extradited to the US and convicted of any of the charges he faces there, the US government will let him serve his sentence in an Australian prison.
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News
Panasonic GC ups the ante on compliance
Consumer electronics giant Panasonic has embedded compliance questions into its annual employee survey to help benchmark the impact of its legal and compliance activities against other corporations, its general counsel has revealed.
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Midlands firm embarks on recruitment drive after 'incredible year'
Lodders is seeking to increase its workforce by more than 25% as more national firms defy the Covid downturn.