Latest feature – Page 14
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Borrowed time
Can banks and other project financiers live up to their promises on climate and human rights? Are Equator Principles delivering – or at risk of losing their relevance?
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Ready to roll
With a vital role in the competition class actions regime, a push towards standard documentation and a nascent secondary market, the litigation funding sector is growing up.
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A helping hand
Covid-19 deaths, the consequent surge in legacies becoming due and the complication of a backlog of probate cases mean charities – and the solicitors that serve them – are emerging tentatively from the pandemic.
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Critical condition
Councils have cut support for law centres and increased rents, threatening their survival just when people need their services most.
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Law boldly explores the hybrid realm
In following the footsteps of the retail sector, law firms can reshape their businesses into hybrid models that offer both modern service delivery and good customer experience.
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Boiling point
Legal advice and the law are vital tools for tackling the climate emergency. But are they up to the job?
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Back to the office – but whose?
The world of work has changed for good, with serious implications for the legal jobs market.
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Sands of time
In a bone-hard market for professional indemnity insurance it pays to get in early, hears Maria Shahid.
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Testing times
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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Battle fatigue
What has the pandemic done to medical negligence and prospects for reform? Melanie Newman reports.
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A place apart
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
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
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?
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
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
How has the economic confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic changed legal recruitment?
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Lip service
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
As a method of resolving commercial disputes, arbitration has boomed amid the pandemic.