All Features articles – Page 18

  • For sale signs
    Feature

    Back to the office – but whose?

    13 September 2021

    The world of work has changed for good, with serious implications for the legal jobs market.

  • Global-warming-earth
    Feature

    Boiling point

    13 September 2021

    Legal advice and the law are vital tools for tackling the climate emergency. But are they up to the job?

  • Timer
    Feature

    Sands of time

    6 September 2021

    In a bone-hard market for professional indemnity insurance it pays to get in early, hears Maria Shahid.

  • HM Revenue & Customs
    Feature

    Taxing partners

    2 August 2021

    Digital shakeup will ‘end overlap profits’.

  • Multiple-choice-exam
    Feature

    Testing times

    2 August 2021

    With less than a month to go until the SQE becomes the route to qualification, many unanswered questions remain about its operation and likely impact. 

  • Tired doctor
    Feature

    Battle fatigue

    26 July 2021

    What has the pandemic done to medical negligence and prospects for reform? Melanie Newman reports.

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    Feature

    The challenging future of clinical negligence litigation

    2021-07-26T00:01:00Z Occasional Contributor

    Mike Knight, ARAG, discusses the future of clinical negligence (sponsored content).

  • Jonathanrayner
    Feature

    Interests in common

    26 July 2021

    Presidents’ and Secretaries’ conference.

  • Stormont
    Feature

    A place apart

    19 July 2021

    In the last of the Gazette’s series of features on the UK’s devolved assemblies and the law, Marialuisa Taddia looks at Northern Ireland.

  • Meal illustration
    Feature

    Recipes for success

    19 July 2021

    It would be easy for law firms to get carried away with legal tech, but a strategic approach – from mixing old with new to creating a blueprint to achieve your goals – is key.

  • Manchester-united-football-protest
    Feature

    Playing by the rules

    12 July 2021

    Mega sponsorship deals and money-spinning transfers are the bread and butter of sports law. But when governing bodies and clubs make headlines for the wrong reasons, lawyers have to pick up the pieces. 

  • Online-reviews-pic
    Feature

    Shining stars?

    12 July 2021

    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.

  • Justin Farrance_A&O headshot
    Opinion

    Legal profession looks to grow together

    2021-07-07T11:00:00Z

    Law Society social mobility ambassador Justin Farrance describes how he founded his mentoring programme and what inspired him to do so.

  • Woman typing on laptop
    Feature

    A year like no other

    5 July 2021

    How has the economic confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic changed legal recruitment? 

  • Car-crash-xray
    Feature

    Lip service

    5 July 2021

    Will reforms principally driven by a desire to cut personal injury claims really simplify the process for claimants? Marialuisa Taddia reports on an online justice platform that takes lawyers out of the loop

  • Hong-Kong-protest-rally
    Feature

    Behind closed doors

    28 June 2021

    As a method of resolving commercial disputes, arbitration has boomed amid the pandemic.

  • ls-pay-gap-cartoon
    Feature

    How to: Close a pay gap

    28 June 2021

    The underlying reasons for pay gaps measured by gender, race, ethnicity or disability are complex. All the more reason to start addressing them.

  • Keith Mukami_South Africa landscape 2
    Feature

    Postcard from Abroad: Keith Mukami, CMS South Africa

    2021-06-25T10:21:00Z

    We are in the City of Gold, Johannesburg, this week in our series examining how English law is being used in different jurisdictions. 

  • EU-flags
    Feature

    Lugano posturing is bad for everyone

    21 June 2021

    It is now over a month since the European Commission advised the European parliament and council that the UK should not be allowed to join the Lugano Convention.

  • Rackley
    Feature

    Centenary of the Six-Point Group

    21 June 2021

    This year marks the centenary of the formation of the Six-Point Group, a feminist organisation dedicated to campaigning for equal rights for women through legal reform.