All Features articles – Page 16

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    Roundtable: From high street to cloud

    5 October 2020

    Some small law firms are at risk as the pandemic continues to bite. But others are planning for a bright future, using lessons they have learned in lockdown. 

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    Black History Month: Unforgetting the past

    5 October 2020

    Celebrating achievement against the odds.

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    Feature

    Press SEND

    28 September 2020

    The Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal is a thorn in the side of local councils. Campaigners and disability charities are determined to keep it that way.

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    Widening the net

    28 September 2020

    Many legal employers are working hard to improve the profession’s record in diversity and inclusion. But as Maria Shahid discovers at a virtual conference, much more needs to be done to overhaul recruitment processes and expand the talent pool.

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    Being creative

    28 September 2020

    Refreshing from the demands of the job.

  • Joanna Goodman
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    Riding the swell

    21 September 2020

    Tech is enabling law firms to stay afloat in the pandemic, but ultimately we will all need to swim out of our Covid-19 caves and break out of survival mode.

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    Home improvements?

    21 September 2020

    Rishi Sunak threw money at a moribund housing market, sparking a mini-boom as lockdown lifted. Residential property lawyers sighed with relief – but will the recovery endure? 

  • Closed shops
    Feature

    A new ‘chapter’ for insolvency law

    14 September

    The coronavirus pandemic ushered in far-reaching changes to insolvency law – creating new winners and losers. 

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    Feature

    How to: make legal aid work

    14 September

    Firms and solicitors continue to quit legal aid. But what to do if you want to stick with it? Melanie Newman reports

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    Feature

    Lockdown: Protect and survive

    7 September 2020

    When Covid-19 is brought under control, what will the business of law have learned about ways of working and the profession’s resilience? Eduardo Reyes reports from the Gazette’s latest roundtable discussion.

  • Running for cover
    Feature

    Running for cover

    7 September 2020

    Law firms must brace themselves for big increases in indemnity premiums. Eduardo Reyes takes the pulse of a rapidly hardening market.

  • ​Gladys Mary Chatterjee
    Feature

    A woman ahead of her time

    7 September 2020

    Feminist pioneer Gladys Mary Chatterjee paved the way for 'outsiders'. 

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    Feature

    Tears in the fabric

    3 August 2020

    Expensive and business-critical, internal investigations will only increase in the aftermath of lockdown, reports Marialuisa Taddia.

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    Feature

    ‘Joint V’ Roundtable: Famous Five

    3 August 2020

    There is no rule book on how law societies should deal with a pandemic. So when members looked to the profession’s local leaders for support, how did they respond?

  • King’s College Library
    Feature

    How Beatrice beat the protectionists

    3 August 2020

    Solicitor pioneer who transferred from the bar in the face of protectionism.

  • Charlie Mullins
    Feature

    Labour pains

    27 July 2020

    New employment tribunals president Barry Clarke wants the system’s reputation to emerge from the crisis enhanced. It’s a tough ask, hears Melanie Newman.

  • Retirement cartoon
    Feature

    How to: Retire

    27 July 2020

    Retirement can herald the happiest days of a lawyer’s life – or the start of a new career. Jonathan Rayner talks to three solicitors about how they have made the most of their golden years.

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    Feature

    Making do

    20 July 2020

    An embattled manufacturing sector is making increasingly complex demands of its legal advisers.

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    Feature

    Taken to the brink

    20 July 2020

    As we await the Ministry of Justice’s annual report, Melanie Newman canvasses practitioners about how the department is performing.

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    Feature

    Uneasy Street

    13 July 2020

    Lockdown has laid bare the vulnerabilities of our under-resourced legal ecosystem. Housing law is among the most exposed areas.