All Leader articles – Page 8

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Show us the money

    2022-02-18T00:01:00Z

    This week: from the sublime to the ridiculous. Paul Rogerson Tales of eye-watering pay hikes for City NQs are now resonating in the mainstream media. Sir Nigel Knowles, CEO of DWF and former chair of DLA, is the latest to opine on the subject. He warned ...

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    A corporate awokening?

    2022-02-11T09:42:00Z

    ‘Woke capitalism’ has been defined as the corporate takeover of secular morality.

  • John-Hyde-2019
    Opinion

    Long hours and small hours

    2022-02-11T00:01:00Z

    What is demanded of junior lawyers in return for such high salaries?

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Taking the fifth

    2022-01-28T00:01:00Z

    Back to the office? Not quite. A Gazette straw poll of the top-30 law firms revealed that the vast majority will continue to allow staff to work flexibly at least two days a week. Hybrid working is the new default and a return to the status quo ante appears inconceivable. ...

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Get happy

    2022-01-21T00:01:00Z

    Solicitors are turning themselves into self-employed consultants by the hundreds. Is a quiet revolution in legal services passing under the radar?

  • Michael-Cross-2019
    Opinion

    Mainstreaming crypto

    2022-01-14T00:01:00Z

    Crypto technology stands today roughly where the worldwide web stood in 1996.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Room service

    2022-01-07T00:01:00Z

    With hybrid working set to become the default, it is refreshing to report on a law firm that is bucking the trend. 

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Turning the page

    13 December 2021

    After 118 years and more than 3,000 editions, today marks the last weekly Gazette magazine that will appear in print.

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
    Opinion

    Plugged in to the network

    6 December 2021

    It was an interesting moment when Bim Afolami MP used his keynote slot at a City forum to tell attendees they were wrong on diversity. 

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Protect and survive

    29 November 2021

    What can solicitors worried about potentially crippling claims in retirement actually do to protect their interests? 

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Gilded youth

    22 November 2021

    If the trend in NQ salary increases continues, magic circle newbies could be earning £180,000 by the end of the decade. But money isn't everything.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Cop 26: Are you ‘angry’ about global heating?

    15 November 2021

    Lawyers have been criticised for not taking the lead on climate change. Is this unfair?

  • John-Hyde-2019
    Opinion

    Priced out of the market

    2021-11-09T00:01:00Z

    The big takeaway from Pure Legal and Hampson Hughes going to the wall may be that lenders are going to demand much more of firms before parting with cash.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Do-gooders doing good

    1 November 2021

    So many solicitors do so much pro bono – but the public never hears about them.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Walking a tightrope

    25 October 2021

    Inciting contempt for a class of people on the basis of their vocation is surely to be deplored in all circumstances.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Soft soap, hard border

    18 October 2021

    Jeremy Miles and Mick Antoniw want to believe that wholesale devolution of justice and policing to Wales is merely a matter of time.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Right to a lawyer

    11 October 2021

    There are renewed pleas for the Law Society to fund legal representation for solicitors facing disciplinary proceedings.

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Show us the money

    4 October 2021

    Is Labour shadow justice secretary David Lammy to the right of Michael Gove?

  • Paul rogerson
    Opinion

    Third sector boom

    27 September 2021

    Litigation funding has burst into the mainstream.

  • Eduardo-Reyes-2019
    Opinion

    Can Raab be holistic?

    20 September 2021

    Ministry of Justice welcomes its eighth justice secretary and lord chancellor in 10 years.