Features – Page 77
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Advising small businesses
Last week the Legal Services Board published research into the legal needs of small businesses (tinyurl.com/omgmthu).
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FeatureLaw centres: living on the edge
Last week’s London Legal Walk, coming weeks after swingeing legal aid cuts were introduced, could be read as a show of strength by the whole legal community.
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Troika measures making law ‘yesterday’s business’
The law has become ‘yesterday’s business’ in swathes of the EU as a combination of austerity and measures pushed through by the International Monetary Fund, European Commission (EC) and European Central Bank drive law firms to the brink of insolvency, the Gazette heard at the CCBE plenary session.
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Costs management
In January 2010 Lord Justice Jackson published his Review of Civil Litigation Costs Final Report. The core recommendations are an interlocking package, and most were implemented on 1 April 2013 in the Civil Procedure (Amendment Rules) 2013, SI 262.
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Growing with India
Since liberalising its markets in 1991, following a bailout by the International Monetary Fund, India has become one of the fastest- growing economies in the world. More recently, last September, following an economic slowdown, and faced with mounting pressure from both domestic and international corporations to make pro-foreign investment a ...
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Could the iPad revolutionise the way law firms do business?
Like several thousand other people, Lee Ranson, managing partner at Eversheds, bought an Apple iPad on 28 May, the day it went on sale. ‘We were converts,’ he says. Unlike many proud early owners, however, he saw the much-talked-about handheld computer not as an executive toy, but as a key ...
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Will overhaul of PII regulation soften up the market?
The shake-up of solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance has been protracted.