Features – Page 36
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FeatureHow to work in new ways
With Covid-19 shutting offices and forcing teams apart, Katharine Freeland looks at remote, flexible and agile working
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FeatureAn uphill battle
Global efforts to achieve equality for women at the top of the legal profession are struggling to get results. Melanie Newman finds out what is going wrong – and what is working.
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FeatureHome truths
Conveyancing is in need of an overhaul – but will vested interests thwart effective reforms? Marialuisa Taddia reports.
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FeatureHow to avoid floods of tears from a water leak in your home
Torrential rainfall has left thousands of properties inundated across the country. But there are some simple things you can do to try to lessen the risk of a water leak in your home.
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FeatureData page – March 2020
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureCash focus is needed to navigate coronavirus pandemic
Demand for all commercial and individual legal services is likely to be impacted in some way, so how will senior partners respond?
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FeaturePace Odyssey
Policymakers and criminal lawyers talk to David Cowan about how well the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 has stood the test of time
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FeatureHappy anniversary?
As the Commercial Court turns 125, litigators are confident it can remain globally pre-eminent despite the threat of rival jurisdictions and Brexit uncertainty. Jonathan Rayner reports.
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FeatureChallenging conversations with clients
Without training in mental health first aid, we may damage trust in the client-lawyer relationship.
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FeatureConnecting the dots
Innovative platforms are enabling advisers to deepen their relationships with clients, while at the same time identifying new business opportunities for law firms.
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FeatureWhat the SQE means for law firms
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) intends to introduce the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) in the autumn of 2021.
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FeatureEarn and learn
Aspiring lawyers have a keen appetite for solicitor apprenticeships, but the profession’s inherent conservatism and delays to the SQE’s introduction are holding them back.
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FeatureMore tales of the unexpected
This article enlarges upon the piece on SDLT published on 27 January (‘Close the knowledge gap to avoid costly mistakes’). It gives six more examples of how complex, arbitrary and arguably unfair the stamp duty rules on residential property transactions can be. It also corrects facts in the ‘town house’ ...
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FeatureFollowing the footsteps of the first
106 years after the courts told would-be lawyer Gwyneth Bebb she was not a ‘person’, Catherine Baksi takes a walk with her granddaughter
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FeatureLaw Society spotlight: February’s Council meeting
A report from this month’s Law Society Council meeting.
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FeatureOnly connect: Sarosh Zaiwalla
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
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FeatureThriving, not just surviving
Greater awareness of mental health makes us healthier, happier and able to do our best work.
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FeatureBringing your ‘whole self’ to work
‘Sausage machine’ of the past is slowly being replaced with new ways of working, taking into account lawyers’ individual experiences and commitments.
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FeatureData page – February 2020
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureRuling elite
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?