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All articles by Eduardo Reyes – Page 7
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NewsHourly rates rebuff for non-London commercial firms
Master of rolls to consider proposed rises in guideline rates frozen since 2010.
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ProfileStrength in numbers
Metamorph, the new owner of QualitySolicitors, claims to be revolutionising legal services. Executive chair Tony Stockdale tells Eduardo Reyes why the consolidator is prospering when so many other ‘game-changers’ have faded away.
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OpinionA levels and training contracts – don’t ask, don’t tell
I’m waiting for A level results. 10 August. Not mine, of course, but my eldest daughter’s – but as well as wanting the best for her, it’s brought back that clear sense I had of everything in my future riding on results day.
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OpinionWords – how a right becomes a cost
There's a klaxon going off above the language being used to describe the rights of children with special educational needs and disabilities.
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FeatureShining stars?
The legal profession long ago embarked on a journey with online reviews – from shutting down the ‘Solicitors from Hell’ website to the prospect of compulsory online ratings.
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FeatureA year like no other
How has the economic confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic changed legal recruitment?
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OpinionOnline reviews are old hat
LSB excitement about online reviews for law firms is quaint and mistaken. Clients now ask their networks for recommendations.
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FeatureHow to: Close a pay gap
The underlying reasons for pay gaps measured by gender, race, ethnicity or disability are complex. All the more reason to start addressing them.
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FeatureMen behaving badly
Will the SRA’s drubbing in Beckwith inhibit its longer-term efforts to curb sexual misconduct in the legal profession? And should we take at face value pledges by law firms that they will get serious when confronted by such allegations? Eduardo Reyes reports.
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OpinionSENDing the wrong message
Gazette readers who have direct experience of dealing with a local authority on behalf of disabled children, whether as parents or as lawyers acting on behalf of clients, will look at the latest salvo against ‘high needs’ children by the president of the Society of County Treasurers and think: where ...
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FeatureHow to: Keep clients close
Business development and contact-building have barely been possible in-person for over a year. But, as Eduardo Reyes discovers, that has not stopped imaginative law firms from keeping clients engaged and entertained – and a hybrid approach looks here to stay
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OpinionThe legal sector’s unadmitted threat to ‘London weighting’
Law firms and consultants of all types who advise them are very keen to talk about ‘the post-Covid world’. Anyone with the strength to wade out past the articles on Martin Bashir and princess Diana, which stretch almost the horizon today, will find a lot of ‘thought leadership’ pieces on ...
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NewsDisabled people ‘wilfully excluded’ in new super-exam
SQE is intended to widen inclusion but could bar use of popular assistive technology, disabled lawyers complain.
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OpinionAwards: the time I (almost) won
If you are thinking of submitting an award entry, my advice is don’t hold back.
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OpinionIt is damaging to rely on one model of disability
There is an important story to be told about disability, and it is told with increasing confidence.
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FeatureKeeping it clean - Risk and compliance
Remote working in the legal sector became ubiquitous overnight. But what have firms done since to control and manage the changing nature of risk, and ensure that they remain compliant?
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FeatureBuckland's judicial power project
Did the justice secretary misspeak when he claimed Lord Faulks’ review of JR supported the government’s case for reform?
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OpinionTime to get out of the People’s Republic of China
International firms that take the long view should consider the future of their China offices.
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ProfileTrust builder
The City’s first general counsel to a law firm talks to Eduardo Reyes about the groundbreaking regulatory work that shaped the world of elite firms.
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FeatureHard times - PII roundtable
Covid-19 has helped to deliver the hardest market for solicitors’ indemnity insurance since demutualisation more than 20 years ago. Eduardo Reyes reports from the Gazette’s latest roundtable