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Leader – Page 3
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OpinionAmerican beauty
There are two types of country in the world: those where the government can tell lawyers what their ethical responsibilities are and those that cannot.
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OpinionChalk – and cheese?
The new lord chancellor and justice secretary is unlikely to have clout in cabinet to secure the funding and investment the justice system so desperately needs. But he's far from powerless.
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OpinionA change in the weather
Like it or not, climate change is a fast-growing business risk for lawyers.
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OpinionMinding the language
Family breakups are lifechanging. The language of the law should connote their gravity.
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OpinionTomorrow’s problem today
'Living pension' first suggests that employer pension contributions will become more of a differentiator in recruiting scarce talent.
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OpinionSafety in the City
For those within City firms charged with managing compliance and risk, the mood music from the regulator could have been more helpful.
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OpinionIt’s all in the numbers
Chancery Lane's financial benchmarking survey is required reading for SMEs which aspire to rank among the best managed of their peers.
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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.