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    Taxing partners

    2 August 2021

    Digital shakeup will ‘end overlap profits’.

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    Testing times

    2 August 2021

    With less than a month to go until the SQE becomes the route to qualification, many unanswered questions remain about its operation and likely impact. 

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    Interests in common

    26 July 2021

    Presidents’ and Secretaries’ conference.

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    Battle fatigue

    26 July 2021

    What has the pandemic done to medical negligence and prospects for reform? Melanie Newman reports.

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    A place apart

    19 July 2021

    In the last of the Gazette’s series of features on the UK’s devolved assemblies and the law, Marialuisa Taddia looks at Northern Ireland.

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    Recipes for success

    19 July 2021

    It would be easy for law firms to get carried away with legal tech, but a strategic approach – from mixing old with new to creating a blueprint to achieve your goals – is key.

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    Playing by the rules

    12 July 2021

    Mega sponsorship deals and money-spinning transfers are the bread and butter of sports law. But when governing bodies and clubs make headlines for the wrong reasons, lawyers have to pick up the pieces. 

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    Shining stars?

    12 July 2021

    The legal profession long ago embarked on a journey with online reviews – from shutting down the ‘Solicitors from Hell’ website to the prospect of compulsory online ratings.

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    Law firms 2.0 and the future of the legal landscape

    2021-07-09T08:00:00Z

    For those entering the legal profession, there is much uncertainty. The speed of change within the legal profession is accelerating rapidly.

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    A year like no other

    5 July 2021

    How has the economic confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic changed legal recruitment? 

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    Lip service

    5 July 2021

    Will reforms principally driven by a desire to cut personal injury claims really simplify the process for claimants? Marialuisa Taddia reports on an online justice platform that takes lawyers out of the loop

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    Behind closed doors

    28 June 2021

    As a method of resolving commercial disputes, arbitration has boomed amid the pandemic.

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    How to: Close a pay gap

    28 June 2021

    The underlying reasons for pay gaps measured by gender, race, ethnicity or disability are complex. All the more reason to start addressing them.

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    Damage limitation

    21 June 2021

    For legal services, the UK’s Brexit deal was better than expected, but still leaves a great deal to be desired – and lobbied for.

  • Joanna Goodman
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    Self-service solution

    21 June 2021

    Applications coded in the same language that can connect and exchange information are building efficiencies into corporate and commercial law and reshaping legal services.

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    Lugano posturing is bad for everyone

    21 June 2021

    It is now over a month since the European Commission advised the European parliament and council that the UK should not be allowed to join the Lugano Convention.

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    The Modern Law Firm: Automated. Integrated. Digitised.

    2021-06-14T15:50:00Z

    Many have noted the legal world’s relative lag in digitisation compared to other professional services industries.

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    Influencing: Behind the scenes at Chancery Lane

    14 June 2021

    A case study in lobbying legislators.

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    Kicking up a storm

    14 June 2021

    In a year of eye-watering PII premium increases, solicitors are entitled to grumble, Jonathan Rayner finds – even if they can’t agree on a solution.

  • Me too
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    Men behaving badly

    7 June 2021

    Will the SRA’s drubbing in Beckwith inhibit its longer-term efforts to curb sexual misconduct in the legal profession? And should we take at face value pledges by law firms that they will get serious when confronted by such allegations? Eduardo Reyes reports.