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OpinionWorking hypothesis
Thinktank’s forecast that the five-day office week will return looks like a vain attempt to stuff the genie back into the bottle.
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OpinionSENDing the wrong message
Gazette readers who have direct experience of dealing with a local authority on behalf of disabled children, whether as parents or as lawyers acting on behalf of clients, will look at the latest salvo against ‘high needs’ children by the president of the Society of County Treasurers and think: where ...
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OpinionFrom famine to feast
After surviving a famine, conveyancers are now invited to a feast. We should not be too surprised.
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OpinionOnly connect?
Pronouncement by bar councils of Britain and Ireland on remote hearings was notable for its singularity alone.
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OpinionInformation is power
How law and access to justice operate is not something most people want to think about until they are obliged to engage with them. How do we change this?
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OpinionPolitical football
European Super League affair has burnished the appeal of legal careers in competition and sports law.
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OpinionKeeping on keeping on
‘Crisis, what crisis?’ Paul Rogerson Older readers may recall that this fatal utterance doomed Jim Callaghan in 1979, ushering in Thatcherism. It didn’t matter that the last Old Labour PM did not actually speak those words in the wake of the ‘Winter of Discontent’. ‘Crisis, what ...
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OpinionRisk - a new frontier
How can one reach a new definition of ‘risk’ to a legal practice in an environment of remote and/or hybrid working?
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OpinionRebels with a cause
Junior lawyers have become increasingly vocal – indeed militant – on issues such as diversity, bullying, toxic masculinity in the City and work-life balance.
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OpinionTaking the high road
It was clear to me that many solicitors south of the border envied the Scots their seemingly inviolable autonomy.
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OpinionActions speak louder
The US has adopted a tough approach to diversity. But what is UK plc doing?
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OpinionCovering the bases
Law firms renewing PII last year encountered the hardest market seen since demutualisation two decades before.
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OpinionDemobbed armies
What the Uber case has once again demonstrated is the tardiness of the law and its enforcement.
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OpinionOffice politics
Firm’s blueprint for a post-pandemic office environment was met with scorn from some of the profession’s more conservative moral gatekeepers.
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OpinionThe human touch
One’s experience of lockdown is intensely personal, shaped as it is by temperament, age, material circumstance and even gender (women do more home schooling, for example).
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OpinionThird-party poopers
Malicious content posted by unhappy customers on third-party web platforms can cost a firm money.
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OpinionAway from home
In current circumstances, how many examples are there where it is business-critical that staff come in to the office?
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OpinionHiding from history
The past is messy, contradictory and often ambiguous. But it does a disservice to the present to hide from it.