All Features articles – Page 20
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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.
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FeatureLooking for answers
Our coroner service is fragmented, outdated and overdue for reform, reports Rachel Rothwell
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FeatureImproving mental health in the legal sector
There is a growing recognition in the profession of the challenges it faces and an increasing desire for positive change.
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FeatureRestrictive practices
Is the state in danger of developing an ‘authoritarian muscle memory’, as the government responds to Covid-19 with rule by decree? Marialuisa Taddia canvasses opinion on the implications of the crisis for the rule of law
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FeatureCovid-19 and its impact on a law school legal advice centre
Head of Nottingham Law School Legal Advice Centre Laura Pinkney reflects on the consequences of the pandemic.
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FeatureCroeso i gymru
No Welsh government has faced a challenge like Covid-19, which has highlighted the realities – and limitations – of devolution, writes Marialuisa Taddia. If the crisis does pave the way for further governance reforms, will Cardiff finally take control of justice and policing?
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FeatureHorizon scans
Could ‘lockdown 3’ really be the time to consider changing job – or even specialism? There are plenty of opportunities out there, discovers Katharine Freeland.
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FeatureFirst mover advantage
Leading industry figures tell Joanna Goodman what it takes to leap off the traditional career escalator into the fast-expanding world of legal innovation.