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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.

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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.

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    How to: Keep clients close

    24 May 2021

    Business development and contact-building have barely been possible in-person for over a year. But, as Eduardo Reyes discovers, that has not stopped imaginative law firms from keeping clients engaged and entertained – and a hybrid approach looks here to stay

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    Doing business in Africa

    24 May 2021

    Advancing English law post-Brexit

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    Feeling the heat

    17 May 2021

    A housing market that ground to a complete halt last year is suddenly white hot, as pent-up demand meets a controversial tax holiday.

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    Conveyancing risks and indemnity insurance

    17 May 2021

    The past 10 months have seen a significant increase in the volume of conveyancing transactions. What does that mean for your PII?

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    Taking the rap: crime

    17 May 2021

    In a dysfunctional and cash-strapped criminal justice system, are sentencing discounts for a guilty plea leading to miscarriages of justice?

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    Engagement or subversion?

    10 May 2021

    Pandemic pragmatism has brought technological innovation to the forefront of legal services, but a critical factor is being overlooked – the needs of the user

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    Remote control

    10 May 2021

    Civil justice practitioners report numerous benefits from a move to remote proceedings. Criminal law was always going to be more problematic.

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    The Old trouble

    3 May 2021

    A tumultuous 12 months has ensured lawyers working in pensions disputes are busier than ever. 

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    Free enterprise

    26 April 2021

    ‘Cumbersome and clunky’ or the ‘envy of the world’? Post-Brexit, reform of the UK’s antitrust regime could encompass the globally esteemed Competition Appeal Tribunal. 

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    How to: Win an award

    26 April 2021

    All lawyers tell prospective clients and job candidates that they, their team and the firm are the best – so an award helps prove it. Maria Shahid talks to the people who know how to go about winning one.

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    Candidates for change

    19 April 2021

    The lasting effect of the pandemic on law firm hiring policies – and a candidate’s options – looks set to be profound, writes Katharine Freeland

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    Believe it or not

    19 April 2021

    Several legal tech stories published on 1 April seemed especially imaginative.

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    March Council meeting

    2021-04-12T15:36:00Z

    Council met remotely on 23 March.