Features – Page 7
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Assange saga approaches its denouement
Today, Julian Assange may hear whether his extradition is finally going ahead.
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Opening the door
For 20 years the Law Society’s Diversity Access Scheme has helped aspiring solicitors from disadvantaged backgrounds become solicitors. Catherine Baksi discovers that it has never been more needed.
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How to: use LinkedIn
With its humble brags and ‘personal journeys’, LinkedIn is the professional networking and social media platform everyone loves to hate. Yet, as Eduardo Reyes hears, it’s too big to ignore. Lawyers may as well get it right as they carry on posting.
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Seven in ten wills ignore the issue of digital legacy
How many of us have planned a good digital legacy? Solicitors and financial advisers can help change that. (Advertising feature.)
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Let all talent rise
In the second of two articles on disability in the legal profession, Katharine Freeland looks at the experiences of – and what must be done for – solicitors seeking to climb the career ladder.
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Show us the money
Windrush, contaminated blood, child sexual abuse – the state claims victims of high-profile scandals don’t need lawyers to secure proper compensation. Experience suggests otherwise, reports Eduardo Reyes.
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Recognising and overcoming digital burnout
What is digital burnout and how can you combat it?
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'Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.' Henry Ford
Professional Development (sponsored content).
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Ghost in the machine
Generative AI is transforming legal work. That has potentially significant ramifications for professional negligence claims and how solicitors insure themselves.
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Touching the void
Seven years into mandatory pay gap reporting, Joanna Goodman reports on whether and how large law firms have used the data to narrow the gender divide.
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Maternity leave: My perspective as a deputy senior partner
What will it mean for my practice? How will clients and colleagues react? How much will everything have changed when I get back?
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LIDW24: Uniting the dispute resolution community
Joanna Goodman speaks with Michael Fletcher, co-chair of London International Disputes Week 2024. The Gazette is this year's media sponsor.
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Data page – April 2024
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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Crowded house
The bedrock of our criminal justice system, the magistrates’ courts, is in crisis. So is it time to consider a radical overhaul? Catherine Baksi reports.
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Building better
Economic and ecological challenges have combined to focus attention on the perceived shortcomings of 70-year-old landlord and tenant legislation. Maria Shahid reports on how this is affecting the commercial property market and the litigators who work in it.
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Double take
Feelings run high on the multiple-choice ‘super-exam’ SQE1. Part two has had less scrutiny. Joanna Goodman takes a closer look.
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My London club: reflections on the Garrick row
It matters how accessible elite institutions are.
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Basis period reform: What do I need to know?
What the changes mean for those working in Limited Liability Partnership firms.