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The legal literati -- its the arts festival season, and the London literati are boarding trains for quaint villages in Wales and the West Country; this year a number of festivals have lawyers involved

1999-07-28T00:00:00Z

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Contempt for lawyers -- UK solicitors are being urged to attend this autumn's Commonwealth Lawyers Association conference in Kuala Lumpa to show solidarity with Malaysian lawyers fighting human rights

1999-07-28T00:00:00Z

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Young at heart -- Sara Chandler has become chairwoman of the Young Solicitors Group at a time when much needs doing, including looking at who is 'young'

1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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Being 'Pilrowed' -- client care means more than providing information on likely costs -- the pitfalls of not explaining the level of fee earner handling a case

1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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Green solutions -- talking to the in-house team at Certa about acting for a small company which keeps all its legal work in-house

1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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Family mediation pilot project -- the background and the concerns over the piloting of mediation meetings for divorcing clients on legal aid

1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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Benchmarks -- at your service -- the service of documents under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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Top dog -- solicitor Walter Merricks beat off stiff competition to land the plum but tough job of Financial Services Ombudsman

1999-07-14T00:00:00Z

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Millenium duty -- as the biggest new year's eve bash ever approaches, duty solicitors will face a simple dilemma -- have fun or work for the usual rate

1999-07-14T00:00:00Z

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Pest control: the millenium bug -- lawyers all over the globe are gearing up to advise clients on claims resulting from the failure of companies to deal with a possible technology meltdown

1999-07-14T00:00:00Z

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Benchmarks -- the hidden splinter? A surprise unearthed for litigants in the register of county court judgments regulations

1999-07-14T00:00:00Z

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Family upheaval -- the Lord Chancellor turned the world of family lawyers upside down when he shelved part of the Family Law Act

1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

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Taking an interest -- a Law Society task force is studying how best to service the specialist areas of practice

1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

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Handling bequests -- as the annual conference of the Law Society's probate section is taking place in London this week, an examination of the types of frauds to which probate solicitors need to be ale

1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

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Cross border in influence -- as the Law Society of Scotland holds its 50th anniversary conference this week, a look at the lessons which English and Welsh solicitors can learn from what is happening o

1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

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Legal Aid: cost appeals

1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

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MDPs: Why? Why not? When? Multi-disciplinary partnerships offer as many opportunities for small firms as they do larger outfits

1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

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Brand protection -- one of the biggest threats to solicitors' reputation is the recor d on complaints handling and a new strategy to tackle this problem has been agreed

1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

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All bar none -- with the Access to Justice Bill sweeping away the last obstacles, the stage is set for solicitor advocates to shine

1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

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Benchmarks -- two months on -- passing judgment on the first two months of operation of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

1999-06-30T00:00:00Z