All articles by Eduardo Reyes – Page 2
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ProfileAt the double
A news report and a clandestine coffee in Berlin created a transatlantic firm with a billion-dollar turnover, led by two women co-chairs. Eduardo Reyes talks to Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Therese Pritchard and Lisa Mayhew
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Feature
Picking up the pieces
Cash-strapped law centres are tottering under the growing burden of unmet legal need. Could lawyers do more to help? Eduardo Reyes reports
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Feature
‘In a very short time a great many She Bears’
Excerpts from Solicitors Journal 1919 show an attitude towards women in the profession that still casts a shadow today.
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News
Give women ‘high impact assignments’, say male lawyers
Male lawyers support a radical blueprint to achieve gender equality in the legal profession.
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News
Big firms worst hit as insurance market hardens
Professional indemnity insurance bills up by more than a third at some firms in latest renewal period.
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Feature
A changing season
As most firms prepare to renew, brokers and solicitors report a hardening market – partly driven by higher-value claims. Eduardo Reyes reports from the Gazette ’s roundtable on professional indemnity insurance
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Opinion
Time to call time?
Concerns about the role of alcohol as a social lubricant in the workplace shouldn’t be glibly dismissed.
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News
Top legal academic Moorhead to head Exeter’s law school
Legal ethics academic joins at time of unparalleled change.
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News
Philippines could open up to foreign lawyers
The time is right to bring a case on restrictions to the supreme court, retired justice urges.
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News
‘Fire sale’ firm now cash-rich and takes £15m investment
Four years after its sale by collapsed firm Parabis’ owners, Plexus Law takes £15m from private equity.
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Analysis
‘Has anyone heard so monstrous a proposition?’
The day the Law Society backed legislation to secure the admission of women to the legal profession.
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Feature
New model army
Mergers, finance, technology and succession planning were high on the agenda at the latest Gazette roundtable, which discussed changing law firm business structures. Eduardo Reyes reports
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Feature
How to: make the most of PR
A public relations strategy need not just be for the very largest practices – in a crowded market, firms of all sizes are seeking ways to stand out. Eduardo Reyes reports
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Profile
Inside job
Andrew Lockley followed a career founded on legal aid with a term as a board member at the much-criticised Legal Aid Agency. So what has it been like on the inside? asks Eduardo Reyes
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Opinion
Theatre review: Gently down the stream
Martin Sherman’s treatment of the lives and persecution of gay men, and the winning of equal rights, is an impressive piece of theatre.
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Opinion
Progress report
As we emerge from decades of sexual harassment allegations dealt with in a flawed way, signs show that this is changing.
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News
Reporting harassment incidents and outcomes should be mandatory, urges lawyer
Managing director of Didlaw says harassment should be taken into same ’name and shame’ territory as gender pay regulations.
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Feature
Conduct unbecoming
What has changed since the #MeToo movement reached the legal profession? Eduardo Reyes reflects on a turbulent year for allegations, high-profile departures – and resistance to change
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Feature
Sitting in judgement
Adversarial justice is founded upon representation and a properly functioning court system that can accommodate robust procedure. But is ‘reform’ pushing our jurisdiction into ‘inquisitorial’ territory? Eduardo Reyes reports from the latest Gazette roundtable
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News
Rohingya crisis: international prosecutions threatened by poor witness statements
Accountability for alleged genocide relies on a more co-ordinated approach.
