Features – Page 6
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Insight: Preparing law firms for the impact of AI
Sponsored content. Gareth Walker, CEO at LEAP UK, on the opportunity presented by artificial intelligence.
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Insight: Generative AI tools in the legal market and the escalating enthusiasm
Sponsored content. Laura Halls, Content Marketing Manager at LexisNexis, takes a deep dive into the intensifying hunger for generative AI tools across the UK legal market.
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The search for common standards
With law firms reporting that generative AI is slashing the time involved in certain tasks, calls are growing for benchmarking and quality standards.
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Trial and error
The scope and scale of fraud are daunting for cash-strapped enforcers. With its ‘tiny’ budget and chequered history of prosecutions, Katharine Freeland asks, can the Serious Fraud Office turn the tide?
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Trials and tribulation
Crown courts are in crisis, reports Catherine Baksi. The backlog continues to climb, the estate is crumbling and there aren’t enough lawyers. So what’s the plan?
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Hard selling
Resolving trade disputes efficiently and equitably is key to global peace and prosperity. Joanna Goodman reviews the growing challenges parties face in maintaining trade relations as globalism wanes.
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Anatomising a disaster
Sir Brian Langstaff delivered his final report on the infected blood scandal last month. Fiona Scolding KC, who represented over 300 victims, examines how the state failed them so badly – and the role played by lawyers and the legal system.
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Sweating the small stuff
Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the economy. Katharine Freeland looks at the snowballing challenges facing legal advisers who are helping these businesses to scale up or sell up.
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Data page – June 2024
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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Seeing and believing
Regulations around the ethical and environmental credentials of businesses are tightening, leading companies of all sizes to rely more heavily on their lawyers. In the first of two features on ESG reporting, Katharine Freeland looks at the position of clients.
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Breaking tradition: Irwin Mitchell leads industry shift with Lexis+ AI
(Sponsored content.) Tahsin Arabi explores the transforming legal landscape thanks to the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence.
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Growing your own
The advent of the SQE has made it easier to train within an in-house legal department. Will more aspiring solicitors eschew the private practice route to qualification? Catherine Baksi reports.
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Bridging the digital funding gap
Julie Bishop and Alex Charles of the Law Centres Network worry that a shortage of cash is hindering access to justice.
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Legal Neurodiversity Network: nurturing talent
Optimising retention and career progression for neurodivergent individuals in the legal profession.
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Keeping house
Solicitors and law firms continue to quit conveyancing. So what reforms of the home buying and selling process would persuade them to stay?
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Data page – May 2024
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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Can we fix it?
Respected, business-friendly and innovative, the Technology and Construction Court is a trailblazer. But could it become a victim of its own success? Joanna Goodman reports.