Features
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FeatureData page – October 2025
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureBlack history month: First-class citizens
The Race Relations Act 1965 ducked key issues but stands as a seismic legislative moment, paving the way for the more comprehensive laws that followed. On its diamond anniversary, Eduardo Reyes considers the act’s legacy.
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FeaturePreparing your firm for new rules on forming companies
(Sponsored content.) Nikoo Ordodary, Director, Business Law at legal software professionals Dye & Durham, explains how the Economic and Crime Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) can impact your firm.
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FeatureChain reaction
One in three conveyancers has said they plan to quit this troubled practice area. Would new technology and reform of the legal process convince them to stay? Maria Shahid reports
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FeatureEastern promise: GenAI hits Singapore
International firms, AI pioneers and nine UK lawtechs assembled at TechLaw.Fest to hear about the profound changes wrought on the profession.
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FeatureFear and posing
Immigration and asylum solicitors are working in their own ‘hostile environment’. Mainstream politicians should know better than to echo dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric.
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FeatureRival lobbies clash on SEND rights
Months of meetings and reports on SEN and disabilities have done little to reassure affected families that children’s rights will not be diluted.
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FeatureLocal heroes
The pressures on local government lawyers are unprecedented. Their response has been to ramp up their building networks and skill sets, and support reorganisation.
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FeatureTaking the moral high ground
Law firm Fletchers Group is seeking to enhance the image of the much-maligned claimant PI sector. The firm highlights the socio-economic impact of its work, saving the government millions while securing access to justice.
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FeatureData page – September 2025
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureBarriers to collaboration
(Sponsored content.) Why solicitors may hesitate to work with financial planners (and why you might want to reconsider).
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FeatureDisputes and the EU: Patching it up
Lawyers have profited from assisting clients who need Brexit ‘workarounds’, especially when it comes to disputes. But, as Katharine Freeland reports, the professional inconvenience for lawyers is taking its toll.
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FeatureNew leadership and renewed focus for legal tech
(Sponsored content.) Colin Bohanna reflects on why he has joined Dye & Durham UK, what’s changing and how legal professionals can benefit from a more connected, customer-first approach to technology.
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FeatureLife of PII
Negligence claims are rising, but most firms are currently enjoying favourable indemnity premiums in what is a notoriously volatile insurance market. Maria Shahid finds out why – and how long such benign conditions are expected to last.
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FeatureData page – August 2025
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureOne Bar, bar none?
Barristers are busier than ever, reports Catherine Baksi. But with huge disparities in the rewards on offer and practitioners reporting increasingly divergent experiences, the profession is polarising.
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FeatureFinding the middle way
Although promoting alternative dispute resolution is not a new development in family court hearings, it was given added impetus in April last year.