All Features articles – Page 41
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FeatureHow To: manage documents
Electronic storage and document management brings huge benefits for law firms, but it also carries significant risks.
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FeatureRoundtable: solicitor-advocates
The Gazette’s latest roundtable looks at changing attitudes towards solicitor-advocates.
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FeatureMalaysia: open for business?
Malaysia is liberalising its legal market, but foreign firms are still not sure what to expect.
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FeatureLawyers in the line of fire
Lawyers across the globe are being murdered, unlawfully detained or assaulted for going about their work of representing clients.
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FeatureMedical negligence lawyers face gloomy prognosis
Changes to civil litigation funding and costs are beginning to bite in the clinical negligence sector.
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FeatureHow To: handle OFR in-house
In-house lawyers seeking to comply with outcomes-focused regulation are dealing with a regime that is ‘dynamic’ and constantly evolving.
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FeatureExpert witnesses: pain and gain
The Gazette looks at the greatly altered landscape in which expert witnesses are now expected to operate.
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FeatureHow To: run a small firm
How does the small but perfectly formed legal practice manage its business?
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FeatureKazakhstan is a magnet for investors but its legal system is a work in progress
Kazakhstan is enjoying an economic boom but politics plays a big part as lawyers seek to carve out practices.
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FeatureHow To: reduce staff pay
Cutting pay could help your law firm remain sustainable, but it has to be done carefully and with extreme sensitivity.
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FeatureEducation and training: learning curve
The profession’s regulators face complex and overlapping challenges in creating a legal education system which shifts the focus from the ‘journey’ to the point of qualification.
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FeatureOffshore: reasons to be cheerful
Offshore financial centres have suffered a reputational bruising and tougher regulation in the aftermath of the 2008 crash. But many law firms have found ways to survive and thrive.
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FeatureHow to: change specialisms
Grania Langdon-Down hears from practitioners who have reshaped their career by moving practice area.
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FeatureRoundtable: pro bono
Austerity Britain has presented lawyers willing to provide pro bono legal advice with severe challenges in accommodating unmet need.
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FeatureChina: a tough market to penetrate
The world’s second-largest economy offers boundless potential. But restrictions on the work of foreign firms are among many obstacles to sharing in China’s success.
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FeatureHow To: be more diverse
We look at what law firms can do – and are doing – to promote diversity and inclusion.
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FeatureCommercial mediation: resolution revolution?
Big claims are made for the merits of commercial mediation, but the pressure is on to show it can deliver.
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FeatureRoundtable: personal injury
The Gazette’s latest roundtable looks at the future of claimant personal injury.
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FeatureHow to: boost your media profile
We consider the value of a media strategy and hiring public relations expertise.
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FeatureHow to: manage your emails
Dealing with and storing emails has been shown to occupy up to half the time of highly-skilled professionals such as lawyers. Roy Russell offers some tips for easing the burden