Features – Page 8

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    Data page – May 2024

    2024-05-20T15:41:00Z

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

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    Can we fix it?

    2024-05-20T11:40:00Z

    Respected, business-friendly and innovative, the Technology and Construction Court is a trailblazer. But could it become a victim of its own success? Joanna Goodman reports.

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    Networking with a difference

    17 May 2024

    Mental Health Awareness Week.

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    Assange saga approaches its denouement

    2024-05-18T00:01:00Z

    Today, Julian Assange may hear whether his extradition is finally going ahead.

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    Opening the door

    2024-05-14T00:01:00Z

    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

    10 May 2024

    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

    2024-05-08T15:35:00Z

    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

    2024-05-07T14:06:00Z

    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

    2024-05-07T08:22:00Z

    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

    2024-05-02T09:18:00Z

    What is digital burnout and how can you combat it?

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    Touching the void

    26 April 2024

    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

    26 April 2024

    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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    Ghost in the machine

    26 April 2024

    Generative AI is transforming legal work. That has potentially significant ramifications for professional negligence claims and how solicitors insure themselves.

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    LIDW24: Uniting the dispute resolution community

    2024-04-23T14:03:00Z

    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

    2024-04-22T10:53:00Z

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

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    Crowded house

    19 April 2024

    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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    Why become a B Corp?

    2024-04-16T14:21:00Z

    People, profit, planet, purpose.

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    Building better

    12 April 2024

    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

    5 April 2024

    Feelings run high on the multiple-choice ‘super-exam’ SQE1. Part two has had less scrutiny. Joanna Goodman takes a closer look.