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BOOK REVIEW: Low Life Lawyer: In the Footsteps of Bechet
This very readable thriller reminds David Pickup of the days when lawyers were able to mix business and pleasure in a way that might enrage the SRA in modern times.
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BOOK REVIEW: Lexcel Financial Management & Business Planning Toolkit
Particularly useful are the downloadable budgets, cashflow forecasts and variance analyses in their respective sections.
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BOOK REVIEW: Cut-throat Defence: a Jack Kowalski thriller (e-book)
A light touch keeps you engrossed all the way to the enthralling end.
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BOOK REVIEW: Robots in Law: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Legal Services
A timely and up-to-date survey of AI in law.
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BOOK REVIEW: Precedent Library for the General Practitioner (3rd ed)
A packed book and CD-ROM for the general practitioner
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The Curious History of Dating – from Jane Austen to Tinder
This is a pacey, intelligent and authoritative account with bags of wit.
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BOOK REVIEW: Cyber Security Toolkit
There is plenty of guidance, checklists and examples, and a CD with precedents.
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BOOK REVIEW: No Bar to Success
An eminently readable account of an East End boy's route to silk.
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BOOK REVIEW: Crash Course: To Hell in a Handcart
Despite some mistakes this is a gripping and promising first novel.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Black Panther: The trials and abductions of Donald Neilson
Ex-law tutor Gordon Lowe brilliantly portrays the criminal mind.
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BOOK REVIEW: Times Change – Before the Children Act
At times this procedure-heavy novel reads like a law school case study.
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BOOK REVIEW: COLPs Toolkit (2nd edition)
This book is a toolkit complete with draft policies, checklists and procedures, all on a CD.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Flack’s Last Shift
A prolific writer of non-fiction takes a confident stride with this debut novel.
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BOOK REVIEW: Profitability and law firm management (2nd edition)
Managing partners need to read this book, which can be dipped into or read at length.
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OpinionChristmas gift ideas: legal books
David Pickup runs through a selection of legal-themed books that could serve as stocking-fillers.
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BOOK REVIEW: Partner Remuneration in Law Firms
Usefully brings together expert views on a subject which is a continuing preoccupation for law firm leaders around the world.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
There is much to interest a lawyer-reader in Elizabeth Foyster’s account of the lunacy commission convened to decide whether the Third Earl of Portsmouth should be declared insane.