All Features articles – Page 20
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FeatureSolicitors’ cyber cover – going quietly?
Potential changes to the scope of cover for cyber-related claims.
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FeatureGazette special investigation: Hate crimes
In a special investigation for the Gazette, Melanie Newman reveals that hate crime laws are heavily used by police forces for offences against their own officers. Has the right balance been struck in this important area?
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FeatureBuilding back better
The pandemic has helped tech innovations become more established, but should legal tech be used merely to rebuild, or to create something truly revolutionary?
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FeatureSplit verdict
With the SNP set for a majority in May’s Holyrood elections, is Scotland on its way out? Marialuisa Taddia canvasses lawyers on the future of devolution and its implications for the law on both sides of the border.
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FeaturePostcard from abroad: Nick Fletcher, Clifford Chance
Nick Fletcher, of counsel at Clifford Chance in Warsaw, examines the role of English law and English courts in M&A deals in Poland.
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ProfilePro active
Travers Smith’s award-winning director of pro bono talks to Jonathan Rayner about a multifaceted career and why he decided to set up his own charity.
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FeatureRemote possibilities
Online education and training requires different content, better mentoring and more support for learners. But will it be any cheaper? Marialuisa Taddia reports
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FeaturePostcard from abroad: Charlotte Gerrish, Gerrish Legal
In the second of our series examining how English law is being used in different jurisdictions, we hear from Charlotte Gerrish, who works at Gerrish Legal in Paris.
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ProfileHow firms have been supporting women during the pandemic
We hear from Farmida Bi, Olivia Balson, Susana Cao Miranda and Sarah Mook.
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ProfileHow the Covid-19 pandemic has affected women
Three solicitors from across the profession reflect on a year of home-schooling, working from home and running a business.
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FeatureInternational Women’s Day: Invited – and asked to dance
To mark International Women’s Day, Law Society office-holders I. Stephanie Boyce and Lubna Shuja talk to Eduardo Reyes about women’s leadership in law
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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
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FeaturePostcard from abroad: Matthew Murphy, MMLC Group
Founder and managing partner in Beijing and Hong Kong.
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FeatureReview: The Law Society Art Group 61st exhibition
Art can work very well online, as the virtual exhibit proves.
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FeatureLaw Society Art Group embraces online exhibition
This year, the show brings together artworks by 32 members of varying expressions and subjects.
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FeatureYouth must be served
Concerns abound at the quality of justice dispensed by the youth courts – the operation of which shocks even hardened defence lawyers.
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FeatureSaving private client
Private client solicitors have had to rethink the way things are done in the last year, but they are relying on more than the pandemic to grow their practices.
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FeatureIn 2021, will ‘agility’ become reality?
Nearly a year on from the first national lockdown, many firms see digital transformation as a springboard for innovation. Even lawyers with no coding knowledge can create tech.