All articles by Jonathan Rayner

  • Damian-Hinds-downing-street
    Feature

    Following the money

    4 October 2021

    Anti-money laundering and financial crime conference.

  • Home-working-child
    Feature

    Tips on keeping fit for the law

    8 February 2021

    Working from home

  • Retirement cartoon
    Feature

    How to: Retire

    27 July 2020

    Retirement can herald the happiest days of a lawyer’s life – or the start of a new career. Jonathan Rayner talks to three solicitors about how they have made the most of their golden years.

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    Feature

    Law Society spotlight: Risk and compliance

    6 July 2020

    How remote working has complicated your regulatory duties – and how the Law Society can help. 

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    Feature

    In the giving vein

    29 June 2020

    It is hard to imagine the charitable sector without lawyers, yet the interaction between the two has not always been harmonious. 

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    Profile

    By royal appointment

    8 June 2020

    Leeds legal mainstay Shulmans this year became the first law firm to win a prestigious Queen’s award for enterprise. Employment partner Jim Wright tells Jonathan Rayner how they did it

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    Feature

    Law Society spotlight: The Law Society Charity

    6 April 2020

    Founded 45 years ago, the LSC mostly depends upon legacies and donations from law firms and individual practitioners.

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    Feature

    Happy anniversary?

    16 March 2020

    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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    Feature

    Only connect: Sarosh Zaiwalla

    24 February 2020

    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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    Profile

    News and the noose

    20 January 2020

    ‘Idealist’ Tamsin Allen acquired a taste for fighting miscarriages of justice by taking up one of the biggest causes célèbre of the post-war era. Now she has the pedlars of ‘fake news and lies’ in her sights, reports Jonathan Rayner. 

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    Feature

    Law Society spotlight: Reaching out for a support lifeline

    21 October 2019

    As the Law Society’s Practice Advice Service turns 30, Jonathan Rayner looks behind the scenes at how the team helps hard-pressed solicitors.

  • Panel
    Feature

    Leveraging social media and going it alone

    7 October 2019

    Small Firms Division annual conference.

  • inhouse-Conference-June-2019
    Feature

    In-house conference: inside stories

    1 July 2019

    Budgeting, recruitment, new technology and pro bono ranked high on a list of topics under the critical gaze of GCs at the Law Society’s In-house Division annual conference. Jonathan Rayner reports

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    Profile

    Wills power

    10 June 2019

    In 27 years at Freshfields Claire Wills has risen to become the magic circle’s most senior woman. And this after a childhood marred by upheaval.

  • At the table
    Feature

    Feel the difference

    3 June 2019

    A special roundtable on new ways of providing legal services – in association with Thomson Reuters.

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    Profile

    Class warrior

    3 June 2019

    Solicitor Walter Merricks CBE has been catapulted into the headlines by his record-breaking class action against Mastercard.

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    Feature

    Success in an ever-changing world

    20 May 2019

    How your firm can thrive on uncertainty.

  • Michael castle 2
    Profile

    Breaking new ground

    15 April 2019

    As a magic circle lifer one of Michael Castle’s toughest assignments was paving the way for development of Arsenal FC’s iconic Highbury stadium. Recently headhunted to lead Deloitte’s ambitious legal arm he now has more hallowed turf in his sights, hears Jonathan Rayner

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    Feature

    Baby boomers v millennials

    18 March 2019

    People in Practice conference.

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    Profile

    Minority report

    25 February 2019

    Wesley Gryk gave up a lucrative career as a Wall Street corporate lawyer to take up the mantle of penniless asylum seekers and the rights of lesbian and gay couples. Jonathan Rayner met him