Features – Page 41
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FeatureCollision course
Personal injury lawyers have endured years of reform seemingly designed to kill off claims supported by legal advice. And there is more to come, reports Melanie Newman
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FeatureIn-house conference: inside stories
Budgeting, recruitment, new technology and pro bono ranked high on a list of topics under the critical gaze of GCs at the Law Society’s In-house Division annual conference. Jonathan Rayner reports
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FeatureDashing for cover
Law firms are responding to reports of a harder market for indemnity cover in 2019. Eduardo Reyes canvasses solicitors and brokers for their latest take on renewal conditions.
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FeatureLocal heroes
Over 30 local law societies have disappeared in the last 25 years. Those that remain must innovate to stay relevant amid the decline in volunteerism, reports Marialuisa Taddia
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FeatureGreenham Common plan to ‘crowd the prisons’
In 1981, women and children walked over 100 miles to the Berkshire USAF base to protest against planned storage of nuclear cruise missiles.
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FeatureData page – June 2019
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureMary Sykes: ‘a rather independent manner’
One of the first women solicitors in England and Wales, Mary deserves to be remembered.
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FeatureInertia is not an option
Dismissing new tools and technologies as ‘hype’ will put the future of your firm at risk. And don’t worry – if a robot doesn’t perform, you can always sack it
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FeatureHow to: use gender-neutral language
By writing ‘Dear Sirs’, some lawyers feel they are holding out against political correctness. But the battle against gender-neutral language is surely a losing cause, reports Melanie Newman
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FeaturePicking up the pieces
Cash-strapped law centres are tottering under the growing burden of unmet legal need. Could lawyers do more to help? Eduardo Reyes reports
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FeatureLaw Society spotlight: May‘s Council meeting
Law Society work on statutory instruments relating to a ‘no-deal’ Brexit.
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FeatureHow to leave work at the front door
Switching off from the office will make you happier and more productive, but this is easier said than done. Katharine Freeland offers some top tips about how to strike a healthy work/life balance
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FeatureTaking on trust
Big businesses naturally strain against the constraints of a competition regime whose power is partly vested in EU law and institutions. But they won’t be let off the leash post-Brexit, hears Marialuisa Taddia
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FeatureData page – May 2019
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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Feature‘In a very short time a great many She Bears’
Excerpts from Solicitors Journal 1919 show an attitude towards women in the profession that still casts a shadow today.
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FeatureToo big to fail?
China is embroiled in a bilateral trade war with the US but the international legal community is unlikely to panic. Foreign law firms are used to playing a long game there, hears Marialuisa Taddia
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FeatureImproving the diversity of your workforce requires cultural change
Diversity and inclusion must be embedded not only in the recruitment process, but throughout an employee’s time at the firm.
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FeatureA new normal
Does it still make sense to describe legal services companies as ‘alternative’ when they are in the vanguard of the sector – and well placed to dominate it?
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FeatureCountry pursuits
Solicitors serving the rural economy must be versatile enough to cope with the ‘jigsaw of life’, hears Ben Rigby