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FeatureHome truths
Conveyancing is in need of an overhaul – but will vested interests thwart effective reforms? Marialuisa Taddia reports.
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Pace Odyssey
Policymakers and criminal lawyers talk to David Cowan about how well the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 has stood the test of time
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Challenging conversations with clients
Without training in mental health first aid, we may damage trust in the client-lawyer relationship.
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Happy anniversary?
As the Commercial Court turns 125, litigators are confident it can remain globally pre-eminent despite the threat of rival jurisdictions and Brexit uncertainty. Jonathan Rayner reports.
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What the SQE means for law firms
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) intends to introduce the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) in the autumn of 2021.
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Connecting the dots
Innovative platforms are enabling advisers to deepen their relationships with clients, while at the same time identifying new business opportunities for law firms.
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Seeing ‘Person A’
A record number of sexual harassment and assault cases came before the SDT in 2019, with more promised in 2020. Is this tribunal the proper forum for these cases and how is it coping in what is unfamiliar territory? Eduardo Reyes reports
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Following the footsteps of the first
106 years after the courts told would-be lawyer Gwyneth Bebb she was not a ‘person’, Catherine Baksi takes a walk with her granddaughter
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Thriving, not just surviving
Greater awareness of mental health makes us healthier, happier and able to do our best work.
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Only connect: Sarosh Zaiwalla
Sarosh Zaiwalla has always looked overseas for work – a strategy, hears Jonathan Rayner, that has brought him cases ranging from sanctioned banks to the return of ancient religious idols
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Bringing your ‘whole self’ to work
‘Sausage machine’ of the past is slowly being replaced with new ways of working, taking into account lawyers’ individual experiences and commitments.
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Ruling elite
The bench still looks nothing like the society from which it is drawn, reports Melanie Newman. Do we need targets and quotas, or are some barriers to judicial diversity self-imposed?
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Feminist, reformer, pioneer and figurehead
Helena Normanton made legal history by becoming the first woman to join an Inn of Court, Middle Temple, on 24 December 1919, the day after the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed. I ‘discovered’ Normanton in 2002 when helping the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University with an exhibition. Shamefully, ...
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Intelligence by design
Understanding the value of recentring and a thoughtful approach to innovation will help law firms to make the most of emerging technologies
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How to rescue criminal defence
It is fair to say that most transactional lawyers are unlikely to have experienced the workings of legal aid, whether in a criminal context or otherwise.
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Crash landing
The Senior Managers and Certification Regime focused City minds on individual accountability, writes Marialuisa Taddia. But does one fine in four years suggest failure or - paradoxically - that the regime is working?
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Forum shopping
Arbitration centres are intensifying cross-border competition for ‘footloose’ disputes, reports Marialuisa Taddia. So which jurisdictions are getting ahead in the race?
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Interview 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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Building a career in the law
The profession attracts people from all backgrounds and walks of life, with no two lawyers’ days looking the same.
