Features – Page 17

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    The watchful hours

    2022-01-28T00:01:00Z

    Email fraud, threats to third-party supply chains and ransomware pose nightmare scenarios for law firms. Joanna Goodman looks at the everyday perils that give compliance officers sleepless nights.

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    Fear not: future of lawyering lies with you

    2022-01-28T00:01:00Z

    Solicitors are concerned about the impact of automation on their jobs. But the manifold benefits of the many innovations coming to market should be a cause for celebration.

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    Decisions

    2022-01-28T00:01:00Z

    Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).

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    Solo climbers

    2022-01-21T00:02:00Z

    Law firms for self-employed consultant solicitors are growing rapidly. Could they really accommodate a third of all solicitors within five years? Marialuisa Taddia reports

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    The beforetimes and what comes after

    2022-01-21T00:01:00Z

    Can technology give legal services a transformational makeover in 2022?

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    My legal life: John O’Donovan, Harold Benjamin

    2022-01-21T00:01:00Z

    Partner and head of banking and finance, London.

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    Decisions

    2022-01-21T00:01:00Z

    Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).

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    Data page – January 2022

    2022-01-20T10:40:00Z

    The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.

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    Sea changes

    2022-01-14T00:01:00Z

    For all her tough talk of ‘turning back the boats’, are many of home secretary Priti Patel’s asylum reforms simply an exercise in political posturing? There are no easy answers, reports Melanie Newman.

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    How to: Change career direction

    2022-01-14T00:01:00Z

    As a profession, law has become ever more specialist. But what if you made a wrong choice? Jonathan Rayner asks for tips on changing the focus of your career

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    How to buy a law firm

    2022-01-07T14:54:00Z

    Top tips on mergers and acquisitions.

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    Her master's voice

    2022-01-07T00:05:00Z

    Arriving as students in 1980s Cambridge was ‘daunting’, but now two former solicitors use skills gained in law to lead two of the university’s oldest colleges. Eduardo Reyes talks to Pippa Rogerson and Loretta Minghella

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    Left hanging

    2022-01-07T00:01:00Z

    Imprisonment for public protection swiftly became a policy without supporters. Abolished in 2012, why are so many prisoners still caught in its clutches? Catherine Baksi reports

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    Law at Cambridge – why bother?

    2022-01-07T00:01:00Z

    Eduardo Reyes hears from the masters of two Cambridge colleges as they make their case.

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    Data page – December 2021

    2021-12-17T09:20:00Z

    The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.

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    Thinking positive

    13 December 2021

    Some IP lawyers feared Brexit and Covid-19 would be bad for business. They could hardly have been more wrong.

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    Decisions

    13 December 2021

    Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).

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    We can work it out

    6 December 2021

    Commercial mediation is on the rise and being pushed hard to keep cases out of our congested courtrooms.

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    Law Society spotlight: Diversity Access Scheme

    6 December 2021

    DAS gives hope to aspiring lawyers who have not had the financial and other less-tangible advantages many of us take for granted.

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    SDT decisions and interventions

    6 December 2021

    Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).