Mark Smulian
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Property solicitors will need to adapt to a rapidly changing market
Property has been anything but ‘as safe as houses’ for solicitors who deal with residential conveyancing since the onset of the credit crunch. Their colleagues in the commercial property sector have encountered equally thin pickings.
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Reforms to the Local Transport Act 2008 will create more work for lawyers
The humble bus is about to drive through a number of new avenues for litigation, following enactment of the Local Transport Act 2008.
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Power in numbers: making sense of the numbers behind commercial litigation
There are ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’, said the Victorian politician Benjamin Disraeli (allegedly), but numbers and statistics can also help uncover the truth – or at least the facts.
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Insolvency specialists - high demand, short supply
The UK has nosedived into recession – but for some this financial cloud has a silver lining. After a relatively lean decade, the downturn is potentially lucrative for insolvency specialists.
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How oil prices and the credit crunch affect aviation law
Airlines have gone to the wall as the price of oil rockets. How can lawyers help the industry weather the turbulence?
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Council law teams get commercial
Local authority legal departments are increasingly competing with private firms for public sector work.