All Opinion articles – Page 219
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OpinionDebates on diversity are a stuck record
It’s time to try something new in debates on the legal profession’s diversity.
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OpinionWellbeing awareness beyond a week
Solicitors must keep wellbeing conversations going to make a real difference on mental health.
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OpinionChanging IP law: nearly there
Reforms promised in the new unjustified threats bill are evidence that patient committee work can pay off.
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OpinionLand Registry: Why, Minister?
Think the government is clueless about privatising Land Registry? A classic sitcom was there first.
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OpinionHow fixed costs are looking
The more things develop, the more one gets the sense that the reality is going to be less radical than first feared.
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OpinionThe IBA and lawyers
We should pay more attention to the International Bar Association. Directly and indirectly, its work affects what we do.
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Where are the role models?
I would have a go at those successful women who have pulled up the ladder behind them.
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Judgment day
Low-level number of judgments against businesses probably down to 600% or so increase in up-front court fees.
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OpinionThe law and diversity – class is permanent
Privately educated people are over-represented by a factor of five in the senior ranks of the law.
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BOOK REVIEW: Law’s Strangest Cases: extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries of legal history
Strange, but compelling reading.
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OpinionBOOK REVIEWS: local authority guides
We review new editions of the Community Care Law and Local Authority Handbook and Local Authority Liability.
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OpinionAnti-corruption: the devil's in the detail
Did the PM’s anti-corruption summit contain more rhetoric than substance?
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OpinionLegal aid: squeezed middle
The rich can pay, the poor invade the courts and middle-earners lose out altogether. What can be done about ‘partial law’?
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OpinionMissing a trick in Manila
Norton Rose Fulbright should do more than admin in Manila — why not legal work too?
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OpinionTTIP: deal or no deal?
Much is at stake for lawyers in the controversial TTIP talks, which are now floundering.
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OpinionDan Dare will need a good lawyer
David Cameron’s ambition for a UK spaceport, announced in the Queen's speech, faces epic legal battles.
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OpinionTechnology disrupting law
Interesting developments in the always-trending world of the impact of hi-tech on the legal profession.
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Showcasing law firms
Accreditation has served us well. A scheme for general practice would help showcase those firms which offer advice on a range of subjects.