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FeatureFalling behind
In our second feature on poverty and the law, Marialuisa Taddia reports on the frontline solicitors helping the vulnerable navigate a bewildering and woefully inadequate benefits system.
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FeatureGolden gateway?
Soaring salaries for the City’s newly qualified solicitors mask the potholed and expensive road to qualification for many. And associate attrition rates are rising.
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FeatureThe wartime CEO
A Ukrainian legal tech startup has continued operations since the country was invaded by Russia. Its chief executive, who was in Kyiv when war broke out, explains how her company is busier than ever and why contributing to the economy helps the war effort
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FeatureWorking it out
Aspiring lawyers with disabilities see few role models. Catherine Baksi asks, can the legal profession change that?
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FeatureContinental drifters
Covid restrictions on work and travel deferred the full impact of Brexit on the ability of UK lawyers to advise and act in the EU. As the profession returns to normal, Marialuisa Taddia delivers a progress report on what practitioners have lost – and might still regain
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FeatureIf you were there
As the cost-of-living crisis worsens, can lawyers and the legal system do anything to ensure a just outcome for society’s most disadvantaged people? Many are helped, Eduardo Reyes finds, yet the scale of the problem is daunting.
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FeatureGood with money
In a volatile world, private client lawyers are working harder than ever to provide stability and legal certainty for clients whose priorities have changed.
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FeatureSigning up for survival
Green clauses are not new, Marialuisa Taddia hears, but their adoption by contracting parties is now urgently needed to save the planet. Can the lawyers prevail?
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FeatureAutomation for the people
Consumer-facing apps and portals can help address the unmet need for affordable legal services – and aid Ukrainian refugees. But the vast majority are commercial initiatives and in the end someone has to pay.
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FeatureMorality tales
Highlights and pointers from this year's annual risk and compliance conference.
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FeatureUrban outfitters
Pandemic lockdowns wrought changes to our town and city centres that appear permanent. Lawyers have a critical role in helping to reconfigure our urban landscape, reports Melanie Newman
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FeatureFlexing the abs
Sir David Clementi’s vision of a liberalised legal services market really began to take shape a decade ago this week with the creation of the first SRA-licensed alternative business structures. So how much has changed? Joanna Goodman reports
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FeatureThe Covid dividend
City and commercial practices have traded far ahead of expectations in the two years since Covid hit. How did they do it – and can the sector’s stellar performance be sustained? Joanna Goodman reports.
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FeatureSpoilt for choice
The advent of the legal tech directory has simplified the purchase of products in areas such as contract analysis. And businesses can also check that the environmental, social and corporate governance credentials of law firms match their own.
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FeatureClients driving a runaway train
Last week’s Sandbox Showcase demonstrated that the best tech companies are no longer following the law firm.
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FeatureHome truths
Housing is an ‘utterly adversarial’ arena unsuited to mediation, hears Rachel Rothwell. But with legal aid rates unviable and cross-subsidy under threat, the government does little but talk about tenants’ rights.
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FeatureA fair cop
A court that deals with fundamental questions of human autonomy is becoming less risk-averse despite being thrust into the public eye. Melanie Newman reports.
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FeatureHow to: Become a Queen's Counsel
As QC applications open, Jonathan Rayner finds out what it takes for a solicitor to make the grade.