All articles by David Pickup – Page 8
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: The judiciary we deserve
Being a Judge in the Modern World Professor Jeremy Cooper £24.99, OUP The world has moved on since a judge asked ‘who are the Beatles?’. Judges were mainly white, upper-class Oxbridge-educated ex-barristers. Like members of the royal family, they were treated with reverence. Unable to defend themselves, they ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Driving success in your law firm
Driving Success in Your Law Firm: revolutionising the client journey Eddie Ross and Sally Holdway £69.95, Law Society There must be an easy way for solicitors firms to be successful. But what is success anyway? Is it doing the work you want to do because it ...
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Life from the inside
The Knife Went In: Real-life murders and our culture, Theodore Dalrymple
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Genocide through a legal prism
Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World
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OpinionBOOK REVIEW: Great minds who made America
America was founded by commercial lawyers with English ideas of rule of law, free contract and rights of individuals. The early charters in the first half of the 17th century were sometimes far ahead of contemporary legal thinking in establishing rights for women and refugees. Slavery, though, was an issue ...
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BOOK REVIEW: May It Please You, Madam: A little book of legal whimsy
Enthralling tales from the frontline
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BOOK REVIEW: The Solicitor’s Handbook 2017
This book is written by two well-known experts and contains all the regulatory material we need to refer to.
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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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Starring role for solicitors
In most courtroom dramas the solicitors are invisible – not so in Apple Tree Yard.
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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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BOOK REVIEW: Cyber Security Toolkit
There is plenty of guidance, checklists and examples, and a CD with precedents.
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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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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: The Legal Training Handbook (1st edition)
Training needs to be planned, budgeted for, and appraised – as this book attests.
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BOOK REVIEW: Law and Licensing: A Concise Guide for Shotgun and Rifle Owners (BASC Handbook)
A comprehensive overview of the law is followed by excellent advice on security.