Features

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    Basis period reform: What do I need to know?

    2024-03-26T15:28:00Z

    What the changes mean for those working in Limited Liability Partnership firms.

  • Paul Green (left) and Cleveland Davidson
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    Unfinished business?

    2024-03-26T00:01:00Z

    The Police and Criminal Evidence Act transformed the criminal justice process. As it turns 40, Catherine Baksi canvasses opinion on whether the legislation is showing its age.

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    Data page – March 2024

    2024-03-25T12:48:00Z

    The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.

  • Katie Atkinson and Noah Milton
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    Improving access to justice through explainable AI research and innovation

    22 March 2024

    Experts from the University of Liverpool and Fletchers Group discuss driving forward significant benefits for firms and clients alike. (Sponsored content.)

  • Martin Whitehorn
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    Tips on finding inclusive employers

    22 March 2024

    Neurodiversity.

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    A matter of trust

    22 March 2024

    In the second of two features on AI adoption, Joanna Goodman looks at the evolution of the technology’s regulation, as the legal sector learns how and when to trust it.

  • David Nash
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    How to extract full value from your legal tech

    2024-03-21T11:48:00Z

    Technology has a big role to play in unlocking efficiencies for law firms, and there are any number of options on the market. Sponsored content.

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    Occupational hazards

    2024-03-19T15:17:00Z

    Employment lawyers are braced for the reintroduction of fees at a time when tribunals continue to struggle with the volume of claims. Fresh legislative upheaval will also have a profound effect on how they work, writes Catherine Baksi.

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    Look back in anger

    15 March 2024

    It is 50 years since the pub bombings which led to the convictions of the Birmingham Six. Eduardo Reyes revisits episodes that shame the police, lawyers and judges with Chris Mullin, whose campaign exposed a notorious miscarriage of justice.

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    The longest journey

    8 March 2024

    Far more women than men are entering the legal profession – but many struggle to move up its ranks. Structural reform is needed, hears Maria Shahid.

  • A group of four colleagues sit round a table while listening to clients on a virtual call
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    ‘Presenteeism’ has changed – you need to adapt

    2024-03-05T13:24:00Z

    Hybrid working.

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    The shape of money

    2024-03-01T00:01:00Z

    In the second of two articles on law firm profitability, Joanna Goodman examines the impact on the bottom line of ownership and structure.

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    Breaking America

    23 February 2024

    A legal tech mission to North America included UK start-ups keen to break into the priority markets of Canada and the US.

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    Opening up on disability

    23 February 2024

    Lawyers take pride in protecting the rights of disabled clients, but the profession’s own record on access is mixed. Are attempts to change that paying off? In the first of two features investigating disability and legal careers, Katharine Freeland reports on the position of trainees and junior lawyers.

  • Fiona Cain
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    Diversity in the Royal Navy and the legal profession

    2024-02-23T15:20:00Z

    Counsel Fiona Cain meets with Commander Ally Pollard, Royal Navy, to discuss their experiences of diversity in the workplace.

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    Paper trials: Conveyancing and the Building Safety Act

    16 February 2024

    Solicitors are turning down leasehold instructions, blaming unacceptable professional risks. New Law Society guidance will help but fresh legislation is still needed, hears Maria Shahid.

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    Will LSB pay over the Hill?

    16 February 2024

    Job advertisement for new Legal Services Board chief executive has now been published.

  • Data-jigsaw-Map
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    Data page – February 2024

    2024-02-15T14:04:00Z

    The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.

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    Life in limbo

    2024-02-13T15:47:00Z

    Indeterminate sentences of ‘imprisonment for public protection’ are thoroughly discredited. So is the end of this manifestation of ‘state-sponsored psychological harm’ in sight at last? Catherine Baksi reports.

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    'Left in the lurch' in Liverpool

    2024-02-09T00:01:00Z

    The city’s housing and homelessness crisis is not just a consequence of austerity. Government at both local and national level is failing in its legal duties to vulnerable people, reports Eduardo Reyes.