Features – Page 4
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FeatureIn brief: Solicitors PII market 2024-25
It was a positive year for firms that renewed their insurance in 2024, with rate reductions that accelerated as the year progressed. (Sponsored content.)
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FeatureDecisions and interventions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
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FeaturePlus ça change
Brexit campaigners promised that the UK’s departure from the EU would reverse an alleged continental drift in judgments, establishing the primacy of our highest court. Catherine Baksi asks lawyers and former judges – has anything really changed?
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FeatureListening and learning: best legal podcasts
Podcast recommendations have replaced books in conversation, and it seems everyone either has, or is thinking about starting, a podcast.
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FeatureBest laid plans
Ambitious reforms of planning law seek to boost economic growth, alleviate the housing crisis and foster investment. Will they succeed? Maria Shahid reports.
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FeatureNew world disorder
The exponential rise of GenAI heralded a deluge of new security threats – are law firms up to the challenge?
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FeatureClamping down on quack counsellors
There is an urgent need for direct and comprehensive regulation of counsellors, therapists and ‘complementary practitioners’, argue Malcolm Johnson and Richard Reid.
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FeaturePlea bargaining
Deferred prosecution agreements in the UK are barely into double figures, whereas the US is a repeat user. Will new anti-fraud legislation increase their appeal? Katharine Freeland reports.
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FeatureData page – January 2025
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureOff the hamster wheel
The not-for-profit law firm is not a euphemism for losing money. Katharine Freeland talks to lawyers who are billing clients for whole new reasons.
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FeatureA little goes a long way: the Law Society Charity after 50 years
The Law Society Charity supports registered charities whose principal aims are to help members in the areas of access to justice, legal education or human rights.
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FeatureRights and wrongs
To many, the European Convention on Human Rights and its court stand in the way of the UK achieving its post-Brexit potential.
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FeatureGenAI two years on
Looking back at the first generation of legal AI shows how dramatically the profession’s tech scene has changed.
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FeatureDamage limitation
Catherine Baksi takes the pulse of a personal injury sector squeezed by tariffs, costs curbs and court delays.
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FeatureGazette Readers Panel AI and Technology Survey Executive Summary, sponsored by Canon
The use of artificial intelligence is accelerating globally on a daily basis. To understand current perceptions and usage within the legal sector, a survey was completed in August and September 2024 with The Law Society Gazette Reader Panel, sponsored by Canon UK.
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FeatureImitation game
Brexit has cast a long shadow over the intellectual property sector, while artificial intelligence tools await the certainty test cases will provide.