Features – Page 17
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My legal life: John O’Donovan, Harold Benjamin
Partner and head of banking and finance, London.
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Data page – January 2022
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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Sea changes
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
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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Her master's voice
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
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?
Eduardo Reyes hears from the masters of two Cambridge colleges as they make their case.
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Data page – December 2021
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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Thinking positive
Some IP lawyers feared Brexit and Covid-19 would be bad for business. They could hardly have been more wrong.
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We can work it out
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
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
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
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Problem solvers
A new generation of lawyers is gaining a foothold in private client, attracted by its focus on the individual. We examine the growing stature of the sector in full-service law firms.
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Value judgements
Digitisation and a focus on more subjective business goals have made the act of measuring value a moveable feast. Yet there is no doubt that technology can enhance this process.
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Talking pictures
Are online hearings prone to abuse, or have we just not adapted properly yet? Melanie Newman reports on different family justice experiences.