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OpinionAlex Norris passes first big test
Norris has faced the modern politician’s greatest ordeal: an 11-minute prime-time interview with Nick Robinson on the Today programme.
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OpinionData overload
We’re not quite into the ‘silly season’, even though the first coils of tumbleweed are drifting across the legal media beat.
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OpinionMaking money from misogyny
What should the law do when misogyny becomes a profitable online business model capable of influencing millions of young people?
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OpinionMoment of truth
Do lawyers and their regulators know what drives positive and negative conduct choices?
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Opinion'The legal profession continues to benefit from greater diversity'
Nazmin Choudhury on her journey into the profession and how her South Asian heritage has influenced her approach to work.
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OpinionCity firms must be alive to profit levy threat
What are the consequences of economic inequality in the profession?
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OpinionOut Of Office? How many of us are still sneaking a look at emails?
The temptation is strong, but maybe one simple tactic can keep work issues away.
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OpinionAn MoJ out of kilter with underlying reality
How often do we have to recite the economic contribution of solicitors to the economy before our importance is reflected in public and government life?
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OpinionTax and spend?
Is Alex Norris MP the most left-wing lord chancellor and justice secretary yet? Could well be.
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OpinionIs the SQE failing the next generation?
Some candidates now pass their assessments and arrive in practice visibly surprised by what is expected.
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OpinionMother in Law: Leaders and healers, feared by weak men
Diary of a busy practitioner, somewhere in England.
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OpinionAre clients more likely to try to avoid family court or is it business as usual?
Two years ago, new family proceedings rules arrived to encourage the use of non-court dispute resolution. Jo O'Sullivan explores whether things have changed.
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OpinionMore turbulence from the US for the rule of law
The Trump administration continues to disturb and overthrow previous understandings of the international legal order, with ramifications for the UK.
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OpinionAlex Norris's job isn't to know the law. It's to stand up for it
Latest incumbent will find it useful to mull the failings of his predecessors.
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OpinionNew faces, familiar demographic
Amid a period of transition at the summit of the judiciary, it is (at least to a degree) a case of plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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OpinionAn old buffer
A scathing report of an independent review of the LSB will do nothing to restore confidence in the uber-watchdog.
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OpinionA wake-up call from Fisher on fraud
Delay in publishing Jonathan Fisher KC's report on fraud is not just a sign of government indifference to the problems he identifies so starkly.