All articles by David Pickup – Page 11
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OpinionThe solicitors’ new year
With unique pressures shaping the profession, maybe we should have our own calendar.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEWS: mental capacity legislation
Lawyers have had to learn new concepts regarding ‘capacity’. These two excellent guides should help.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: SRA Handbook (October 2013)
This up-to-date edition is essential reading following a raft of regulatory changes over the past year.
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OpinionLegal aid hiring headache
The recruitment world is buoyant, but for legal aid lawyers problems persist.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Clarence Darrow – Attorney for the Damned
This well-told account of American lawyer Clarence Darrow’s life should be an inspiration.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEWS: Jack the Ripper
New ‘Ripperature’ from Guy Logan and Richard Whittington-Egan comes under the microscope.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Social Networking for Law Firms
Social media is here to stay. This guide is good at explaining the issues and drawbacks when using it.
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OpinionA senior partner’s Christmas countdown
David Pickup runs us through his exhaustive list of tasks to complete before the big holiday.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Fixed Fees in the Criminal Courts: A Survival Guide (3rd edition)
This complex area is explained in a clear way.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Whores and Highwaymen – Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis
A very readable documentation of grizzly legal London in the 18th century. Are things better now?
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Legal Project Management, Pricing, and Alternative Fee Arrangements
This book looks at how to be attractive and therefore competitive to win and keep clients.
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OpinionWhat sort of question is that?
Form-filling is increasingly becoming part of the job. But how many solicitors answer the questions honestly?
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OpinionChanging times
Charging by time only is unpopular with clients and has given various governments excuses to cut legal aid. Maybe a new system is needed.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Psychopaths – An Introduction
This little book looks at the development of study into this disorder, what it is and how to deal with sufferers.
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OpinionWhere has everyone gone?
It is that time of year again. Everyone has disappeared for summer – but, with mobiles and email around, it’s getting harder to switch off completely.
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PII renewals: just like Christmas
This week the staff asked when we are closing for Christmas. They want to make plans, and why not?
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Having a choice of lawyers
The right to choose a lawyer is part of our accepted rights, yet threatened by the criminal legal aid proposals. How essential is that right? When you last needed a doctor, banker, priest, dentist or schoolteacher, what choice did you actually have? At best you probably had a limited choice ...
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PCT: reverse psychology
Two questions. Question one: Have you signed the petition protesting about price-competitive tendering? Question two: Do you think it will make the slightest difference? I wonder if we have got it completely wrong in our protesting. The more we protest the less likely the protests ...
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To hear is to obey
Don’t clients sometimes drive you mad? Happily this won’t happen any more because they are no longer ‘clients’ but ‘consumers’. I am grateful to the people who responded to my last blog by pointing out the Legal Ombudsman’s site refers to them as consumers. I also note chief ombudsman Adam ...