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  • How to change careers
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    How to: Change career direction

    2022-01-14T00:01:00Z

    As a profession, law has become ever more specialist. But what if you made a wrong choice? Jonathan Rayner asks for tips on changing the focus of your career

  • Trapped in chains
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    Left hanging

    2022-01-07T00:01:00Z

    Imprisonment for public protection swiftly became a policy without supporters. Abolished in 2012, why are so many prisoners still caught in its clutches? Catherine Baksi reports

  • Brain-light-bulb-IP
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    Thinking positive

    13 December 2021

    Some IP lawyers feared Brexit and Covid-19 would be bad for business. They could hardly have been more wrong.

  • Commercial-Mediation
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    We can work it out

    6 December 2021

    Commercial mediation is on the rise and being pushed hard to keep cases out of our congested courtrooms.

  • Law Society illustration
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    Law Society spotlight: Diversity Access Scheme

    6 December 2021

    DAS gives hope to aspiring lawyers who have not had the financial and other less-tangible advantages many of us take for granted.

  • Rubiks-cube
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    Problem solvers

    29 November 2021

    A new generation of lawyers is gaining a foothold in private client, attracted by its focus on the individual. We examine the growing stature of the sector in full-service law firms.

  • Joanna Goodman
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    Value judgements

    22 November 2021

    Digitisation and a focus on more subjective business goals have made the act of measuring value a moveable feast. Yet there is no doubt that technology can enhance this process.

  • remote hearing
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    Talking pictures

    22 November 2021

    Are online hearings prone to abuse, or have we just not adapted properly yet? Melanie Newman reports on different family justice experiences.

  • Domestic-violence
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    Coming to harm

    15 November 2021

    Controlling and coercive behaviour was recognised as a discrete criminal offence in 2015, but is enough being done to protect victims? 

  • Maria-Shahid
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    Bringing more to the table

    15 November 2021

    Leeds Law Society’s Diversity and Inclusion Conference, in association with the Law Society, provided an opportunity to focus on the continuing need for a more modern, diverse and inclusive legal profession.

  • Covid-cage
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    New world order

    8 November 2021

    The easing of Covid restrictions brings fresh challenges to law firm recruitment.

  • Student takes a test
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    Giving everyone a fair attempt at the SQE

    2021-11-05T00:01:00Z

    Ahead of the first ever Solicitors Qualifying Examination, Julie Brannan discusses accessibility, reasonable adjustments and early applications.

  • Dominic Raab arrives at the Judge's entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice
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    Ever so mighty

    1 November 2021

    Ministers have become fixated on judicial power and the ability of the courts to frustrate government policy. Will they really take on the rule of law as ‘public enemy number one’? Eduardo Reyes reports.

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    Trolley dash

    25 October 2021

    A frenzied housing market pushed conveyancers to the limit.

  • Joanna Goodman
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    Technology: a community reunited

    25 October 2021

    The return of Legal Geek as an in-person event gave the industry a chance to see how far lawtech has evolved during the pandemic.

  • Paul Tennant
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    Law Society Spotlight: AGM/Council meeting

    2021-10-21T10:07:00Z

    CEO Paul Tennant writes on developments at last week’s Law Society AGM and October’s meeting of the Council.

  • Debenhams
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    National property conference

    18 October 2021

    Moving to new premises.

  • Paul Tennant
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    Law Society spotlight: Fire and pestilence at Chancery Lane

    11 October 2021

    Paul Tennant talks to Paul Rogerson about his exceptionally eventful spell as chief executive of the Law Society.

  • Stephen-Lawrence-funeral-portrait
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    Duty bound

    11 October 2021

    This year marks 20 years of the race equality duty, introduced in the wake of the Macpherson report’s damning indictment of ‘institutional racism’ in the police. We assess the duty’s impact and enduring legacy.

  • Rachel rothwell
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    Streamlining justice

    11 October 2021

    Commercial litigation.