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NewsLawyers brighten up north London
Law Society Art Group's annual show of members’ work returns to Lauderdale House, Highgate.
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NewsGallery: Lawyers who ran the London Marathon 2025
Did you take part in Sunday's race? Send in your snaps!
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NewsMemory lane
Rising number of practitioners, single civil court fears, the need for a family court and extradition and the Stonehouse case: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsGoing the extra nautical mile to fulfil a dying wish
Adventurous seafaring lawyer's enduring wish was that his beloved yacht should not end up at the back of a boatyard.
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NewsRCJ hydrates hacks at last
Royal Courts of Justice press room has a makeover that means journalists don't need to rinse out their mugs in the toilet sinks.
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NewsA (vice) presidential run
When Mark Evans ascends from Law Society VP to president later this year, could he be the society’s fastest president yet?
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NewsCountdown to legal walk jamboree
It is almost time for the biggest legal fundraising event of the year, which takes place on 17 June.
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NewsWriting wrongs: top scribe tips
Once I became editor of a legal magazine I quickly learned some lessons about writing. Here are a few thoughts about submissions.
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NewsFather for justice
Law Society’s most familiar face, Buildings Project Officer Richard Hopkins, retires after 37 years’ service.
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NewsSchool's out for Gina
We must bid adieu to the True and Fair party, the political vehicle founded by Gina Miller.
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NewsSlapping down misleading postie payout headline
Law firm's head of marketing calls out Telegraph headline on LinkedIn.
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NewsWagatha Christie goes to extra time
The latest reminder that endings are never as clear-cut as we are led to believe from fairytales is Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney.
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NewsRadical surgery for access to justice
David Heath was unknown to Obiter ahead of Tuesday’s launch of the Legal Services Consumer Panel report on access to justice.
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NewsDocuments, glorious documents
Court of Appeal takes a further welcome step towards open justice - most of the time
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NewsDiversity and exclusion
These are unfortunate times for so-called Big Law firms as they balance their rock-solid commitment to diversity and inclusion with the Donald Trump size 12s pressing heavily on their necks.
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NewsExceptions to the cab rank rule
In 25 years of practice, I never met a clerk who, if he or his master did not want a case, could not evade it.
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NewsIt ends as it began
Richard Nelson, who applied for a trainee position after seeing an advert in the Gazette, retires after 42 years with the same firm.