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With hybrid working set to become the default, it is refreshing to report on a law firm that is bucking the trend.
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Turning the page
After 118 years and more than 3,000 editions, today marks the last weekly Gazette magazine that will appear in print.
- Opinion
Protect and survive
What can solicitors worried about potentially crippling claims in retirement actually do to protect their interests?
- Opinion
Gilded youth
If the trend in NQ salary increases continues, magic circle newbies could be earning £180,000 by the end of the decade. But money isn't everything.
- Opinion
Cop 26: Are you ‘angry’ about global heating?
Lawyers have been criticised for not taking the lead on climate change. Is this unfair?
- News
SQE: 'Reasonable adjustments' introduced as assessments get under way
SRA and exam provider Kaplan act to allay criticism that they risk 'wilfully excluding' disabled people in Solicitors Qualifying Examination.
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Sleaze row: Paterson vote ‘completely undermines trust’, says ex-government legal chief
Sir Jonathan Jones QC slams 'dysfunctional' system for regulating MPs, while ex-lord chancellor Lord Falconer berates law officer 'stooges'.
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Do-gooders doing good
So many solicitors do so much pro bono – but the public never hears about them.
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Cop 26: Lawyers must wake up to climate ‘madness’, says former Ireland president
Mary Robinson says the legal profession needs to do more to address the climate crisis.
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Callow junior left to run firm rebuked over conveyancing failures
Practitioner had been a solicitor for less than a year when she took control at Halifax firm.
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Walking a tightrope
Inciting contempt for a class of people on the basis of their vocation is surely to be deplored in all circumstances.
- News
'Claims R Us' portal could transform civil justice, says master of the rolls
Triage service for all-comers would direct claims to the right online location to resolve their dispute.
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Soft soap, hard border
Jeremy Miles and Mick Antoniw want to believe that wholesale devolution of justice and policing to Wales is merely a matter of time.
- News
‘Time to rethink our museums and return stolen goods’, says high-profile lawyer
Mark Stephens CBE is heavily involved in efforts to repatriate cultural artefacts.
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Law firms blocking solicitors from bench - circuit chief
Experienced solicitors are being prevented from getting on to the judicial ladder by employers fearful they might leave, says top district judge.
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SIF saga latest: Solicitors 'should pay extra £10 a year' for retirement protection
Solicitors threatened the SRA with judicial review over the 'arbitrary' closure of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund, it has emerged.
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Right to a lawyer
There are renewed pleas for the Law Society to fund legal representation for solicitors facing disciplinary proceedings.
- Feature
Law Society spotlight: Fire and pestilence at Chancery Lane
Paul Tennant talks to Paul Rogerson about his exceptionally eventful spell as chief executive of the Law Society.
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Show us the money
Is Labour shadow justice secretary David Lammy to the right of Michael Gove?
- News
Talks to resume on devolving justice to Wales
UK government has rejected full legislative devolution of justice and policing - but Cardiff remains determined to go its own way.
