All articles by Eduardo Reyes – Page 11
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FeatureTaking the controls
In-house counsel are wary of a ‘golden age’ for private practice which can mean partner profits taking priority over client needs. Eduardo Reyes reports from the Gazette’s latest roundtable
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Opinion
Bread and the circus
We are seeing a subtle form of brazen disrespect towards in-lawyers – and it centres around fees.
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FeatureWhat Fiona did next
The letters page of the Gazette included an eye-catching exchange of views in 1982.
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NewsCourt of Appeal rejects JR on assisted dying
Essence of the claim has been argued in a number of different ways, Dingemans LJ rules.
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FeatureInterview tips: Landing that job in the law
Very few people enjoy job interviews, but there are ways to make the experience less of an ordeal.
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FeatureHedging bets
A novel ‘redress scheme’ for businesses mis-sold complex financial products dealt with 16,000 claims. Did it fall short? Eduardo Reyes reports.
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NewsIt was 100 years ago today: Profession marks opening to women
Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act received royal assent on 23 December 1919.
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NewsRegulator reviews ‘lawyer-free’ bank compensation scheme
FCA probe follows concerns about redress for mis-sold interest rate hedging products.
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NewsUK puts pressure on Hague court over 'lawfare'
Foreign Office minister speaks at International Criminal Court's assembly of state parties.
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FeatureExe marks the spot
Exeter is so much more than the south-west’s second legal centre, hears Eduardo Reyes at the Gazette’s latest roundtable. As well as offering an enviable lifestyle, the city boasts a fiercely competitive market which is a draw for junior lawyers seeking to make their mark
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Feature‘A great many she bears’
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 turns 100 on 23 December. Eduardo Reyes looks back on a century of shifting attitudes, both in the press and the Council chamber
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FeatureGlobal targets
Cast as ‘vagabonds’ in many countries, blackmailed by police and turned down for asylum, transgender people are badly let down by the law. What can be done? Eduardo Reyes reports.
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OpinionWe back only one type of social mobility
It’s called escape. But should everyone with a bit of potential have to, effectively, do a runner?
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News‘Shaking with shock’ – calls for investigation follow Gazette disclosure of secret CPS rape targets
Reactions from lawyers, political leaders and campaigners.
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FeatureThe only way is up
Some in the law are happy with the success of schemes to improve the profession’s role in social mobility. But serious problems remain, junior lawyers tell Eduardo Reyes, including the experience of ‘imposter syndrome’ after qualification.
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OpinionPicturing justice
If a cartoon character informs people their problem has a legal solution, then The Belonging Project’s initiative has been a good use of pro bono time.
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NewsCity partner publicly berates top legal directory over lack of women
Chambers & Partners tells Mayer Brown lawyer it is working towards greater inclusion.
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OpinionPeople who don’t know their knees from their thighs
When it comes to sexual harassment and assault allegations, language matters.
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ProfileMake me a match
Why send legal work to outsourcing centres in India, when top lawyers here sit idle? Dana Denis-Smith talks to Eduardo Reyes about women in the law and her thriving 1,700-lawyer legal support business
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NewsCity firms ‘bribing’ NQs to tolerate ‘broken culture’
Legal outsourcing business CEO says junior lawyers are being induced to work in a ‘dysfunctional environment’.