All Leader articles – Page 6
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OpinionIndustrial revolution
Is generative AI about to do for legal services what the spinning jenny did for the textile industry?
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OpinionLabour's bingo card
Plumbers do not have to pay out of their own pockets for people to have access to sound pipes. Do solicitors have broader social obligations to their sector?
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OpinionTruth at a premium
Inquiry into whiplash claims and impact of reform will seek to determine whether government has met objective of passing on cost savings to motorists through lower premiums.
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OpinionRate for the job
There’s a reason only 4% of duty solicitors are under 35. It’s the same reason the NHS has 50,000 nursing vacancies.
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OpinionSplit ends – and means
As the devolved government in Cardiff continues to make new law, the current hotchpotch of devolved and reserved responsibilities pertaining to justice becomes ever harder to justify.
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OpinionGravy trains
A review of 2023’s jobs market reveals hybrid working could ratchet up pay rates for some solicitors - a trend driven by those who only go in to the office a couple of days a week.
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OpinionGame over?
With Metamorph gone, I wonder whether we have finally seen the last of the big, brash ‘game-changers’.
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OpinionBreaking the spell
Former senior partner at Slaughter and May, Christopher Saul, reckons the magic circle has problems.
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OpinionMoral maze
Higgs LLP says law firms have a 'moral responsibility' to help employees negotiate the cost-of-living crisis. But firms can only pay what they can afford.
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OpinionSRA conduct rules intrude into private life
We must hope the regulator will deploy its new power judiciously and without recourse to dogma.
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OpinionIt's that man again
Brandon Lewis's successor at Petty France is one, er, Dominic Raab. The portents are not good.
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OpinionHunt for efficiencies
Is the UK morphing, as some now contend, from being a developed to a developing economy?
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OpinionRaising the stakes
HSBC’s latest legal business briefing discloses that one in three law firms with turnover exceeding £18m now has an independent ESG committee.
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NewsStudents on a roll
Nearly 19,000 students graduated with law degrees from universities in England and Wales in 2021, the highest number on record. Why the huge increase?
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OpinionHack watch
Cash is needed to safeguard what ought to be universally regarded as a critical component of civil society: court reporting.
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OpinionAll quiet on the legal front?
If we are in for a quieter time, there is a chance that the hard slog of overdue maintenance work can start.