All Features articles – Page 32
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FeatureRound the houses
Digitisation, liability for identity fraud and cybercrime are among urgent challenges facing residential conveyancers. Grania Langdon -Down reports
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FeatureIn with the new
December’s Council meeting, at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, had a packed agenda which looked back over 2017 and forward to implementing changes already under way.
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FeatureTrade treaties: pact agenda
UK haggling over a post-Brexit trade deal has cast a spotlight on the proliferation of treaties subject to ever more complex laws and regulations. Marialuisa Taddia reports
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FeatureTechnology: netminder is a good save
AI goalie keeps out email howlers, while a chatbot takes the strain off junior clerks.
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FeatureLitigation – 2017 in review
BPE Solicitors v Hughes-Holland [2017] UKSC 21, a solicitors’ negligence claim, was the Supreme Court’s first opportunity to review the 20-year-old House of Lords SAAMCO principle, which underpins the calculation of loss in professional negligence claims. The court reaffirmed the SAAMCO judgment, referred to by Lord Sumption as ‘one of ...
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ProfileSwati Paul: Ground control
The in-house solicitor of the year tells Jonathan Rayner how she built a ‘novel legal structure’ that benefits all airlines
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FeaturePrivate equity: Many happy returns?
Ten years after the financial crisis erupted, private equity has rediscovered some of its old swagger. Legal advisers have not been slow to capitalise, reports Marialuisa Taddia
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FeatureSexual harassment: You too?
Sexual harassment in the legal profession is ‘rife’ – with the City of London providing some of the worst examples, Eduardo Reyes hears
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FeatureCanada: Trading places
Buffeted by foreign incomers and embroiled in a trade stand-off with the US, Canadian law firms are seeking to broaden their horizons.
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FeatureEU Financial Regulation: Money troubles
Since the 2008 crash, restoring stability to Europe’s financial services industry has taken precedence over creating a single market. That has meant a fee bonanza for compliance advisers.
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FeatureTechnology: Riding the hype-cycle
Tech start-ups have peaked, we are told – not so in the law.
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FeatureAvocado and toast on the menu
The buzz around new combinations of familiar products can drive revenue and help law firms and clients work smarter.
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FeatureOut of the loop
Access to justice has become inversely proportional to the need for representation. How realistic is it to hope for meaningful reform?
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FeatureElectric reams
Litigators remain reluctant to move away from standard disclosure, despite Jackson LJ’s best efforts. Could technology be a panacea in the battle to control costs?
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FeatureAzerbaijan: Baku to the future
Azerbaijan is attempting to diversify and attract foreign investors amid a financial crisis. Lawyers in the former Soviet republic are already exploiting new advisory opportunities, reports Marialuisa Taddia
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FeatureHow to: Close a law firm
Last year 367 firms shut up shop – what’s the best way to close? Eduardo Reyes reports
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FeatureWellbeing: Mind your business
Mental health and wellbeing at work are rising up the agenda of legal employers.
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FeatureSmall fortunes
Generating leads, preventing cyber-attacks and a bear dancing the Moonwalk all featured at the Small Firms Division’s annual conference.
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FeatureEducation and training: Testing times
With three years to go until implementation of the new ‘super-exam’, concerns remain about what this controversial revamp will mean for the profession.
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FeatureSeeing the wood for the trees
In legal IT, ‘disruption’ is morphing into the new normal. Solicitors must also keep an eye on the basics.