Features – Page 8
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FeatureHow to avoid floods of tears from a water leak in your home
Torrential rainfall has left thousands of properties inundated across the country. But there are some simple things you can do to try to lessen the risk of a water leak in your home.
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Home truths
Conveyancing is in need of an overhaul – but will vested interests thwart effective reforms? Marialuisa Taddia reports.
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Data page – March 2020
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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Cash focus is needed to navigate coronavirus pandemic
Demand for all commercial and individual legal services is likely to be impacted in some way, so how will senior partners respond?
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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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Challenging conversations with clients
Without training in mental health first aid, we may damage trust in the client-lawyer relationship.
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Pace Odyssey
Policymakers and criminal lawyers talk to David Cowan about how well the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 has stood the test of time
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Happy anniversary?
As the Commercial Court turns 125, litigators are confident it can remain globally pre-eminent despite the threat of rival jurisdictions and Brexit uncertainty. Jonathan Rayner reports.
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Connecting the dots
Innovative platforms are enabling advisers to deepen their relationships with clients, while at the same time identifying new business opportunities for law firms.
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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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Earn and learn
Aspiring lawyers have a keen appetite for solicitor apprenticeships, but the profession’s inherent conservatism and delays to the SQE’s introduction are holding them back.
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What the SQE means for law firms
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) intends to introduce the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) in the autumn of 2021.
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More tales of the unexpected
This article enlarges upon the piece on SDLT published on 27 January (‘ Close the knowledge gap to avoid costly mistakes ’). It gives six more examples of how complex, arbitrary and arguably unfair the stamp duty rules on residential property transactions can be. It also corrects facts in the ...
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Following the footsteps of the first
106 years after the courts told would-be lawyer Gwyneth Bebb she was not a ‘person’, Catherine Baksi takes a walk with her granddaughter
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Law Society spotlight: February’s Council meeting
A report from this month’s Law Society Council meeting.
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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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Only connect: Sarosh Zaiwalla
Sarosh Zaiwalla has always looked overseas for work – a strategy, hears Jonathan Rayner, that has brought him cases ranging from sanctioned banks to the return of ancient religious idols
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Thriving, not just surviving
Greater awareness of mental health makes us healthier, happier and able to do our best work.
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Bringing your ‘whole self’ to work
‘Sausage machine’ of the past is slowly being replaced with new ways of working, taking into account lawyers’ individual experiences and commitments.
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Data page – February 2020
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
