All Features articles – Page 19

  • Gwyneth Bebb, pioneer campaigner for women to be admitted as solicitors.
    Feature

    Following the footsteps of the first

    2 March 2020

    106 years after the courts told would-be lawyer Gwyneth Bebb she was not a ‘person’, Catherine Baksi takes a walk with her granddaughter

  • Colleagues/coworkers
    Feature

    Thriving, not just surviving

    24 February 2020

    Greater awareness of mental health makes us healthier, happier and able to do our best work.

  • Sarosh-Zaiwalla
    Feature

    Only connect: Sarosh Zaiwalla

    24 February 2020

    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

  • Colleagues/coworkers
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    Bringing your ‘whole self’ to work

    2020-02-20T15:27:00Z

    ‘Sausage machine’ of the past is slowly being replaced with new ways of working, taking into account lawyers’ individual experiences and commitments.

  • Alexandra-Marks
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    Ruling elite

    17 February 2020

    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?

  • judith bourne
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    Feminist, reformer, pioneer and figurehead

    10 February 2020

    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, ...

  • Sat-Nav-car
    Feature

    Intelligence by design

    10 February 2020

    Understanding the value of recentring and a thoughtful approach to innovation will help law firms to make the most of emerging technologies

  • Ollie-Grech
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    How to rescue criminal defence

    10 February 2020

    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.

  • Fcanewfri
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    Crash landing

    10 February 2020

    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?

  • Data-jigsaw-Map
    Feature

    Forum shopping

    3 February 2020

    Arbitration centres are intensifying cross-border competition for ‘footloose’ disputes, reports Marialuisa Taddia. So which jurisdictions are getting ahead in the race?

  • Job-interviews
    Feature

    Interview tips: Landing that job in the law

    27 January 2020

    Very few people enjoy job interviews, but there are ways to make the experience less of an ordeal. 

  • iStock-964487738
    Feature

    How to ‘talk’ to a depressed colleague

    27 January 2020

    Mental ill-health.

  • Simon Davis
    Feature

    Building a career in the law

    27 January 2020

    The profession attracts people from all backgrounds and walks of life, with no two lawyers’ days looking the same.

  • HS partner dinner
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    Succeeding in the City in the 1970s

    27 January 2020

    When Dorothy Livingstone started as a trainee at Herbert Smith, it was a male-dominated environment. But society was changing.

  • Wheatley
    Feature

    Hedging bets

    20 January 2020

    A novel ‘redress scheme’ for businesses mis-sold complex financial products dealt with 16,000 claims. Did it fall short? Eduardo Reyes reports.

  • Cryptocrime
    Feature

    Picking up the traces

    13 January 2020

    As law enforcers fight a multi-faceted battle against fraud, Grania Langdon-Down looks at the revolutionary challenges posed by cryptoassets to solicitors on the frontline.

  • LS_succession
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    How to: Tackle succession planning

    13 January 2020

    Contemplating your own professional mortality can be uncomfortable, hears Marialuisa Taddia. But the rise of the ‘zombie’ law firm shows it is never too early to start thinking about what comes next.

  • Cybercrime
    Feature

    Protecting your funds from cybercriminals

    13 January 2020

    How to handle everyday IT challenges in your legal business

  • Art Exhibition Poster 2020 - Steam by John Joseph
    Feature

    Law Society art exhibition turns 60

    2020-01-07T12:05:00Z

    Lawyer members of the group share what art means to them ahead of this month's show. 

  • Margery Fry
    Feature

    The indomitable: 100 years of women magistrates

    2019-12-20T08:00:00Z

    In December 1919 seven women were appointed to the magistracy, a hitherto wholly male domain.