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NewsLaw Society targets education revolution with new partnerships
Chancery Lane wants to reshape the market in the runup to the ’super-exam’ in 2020
NewsLegal Wales: Pro vice-chancellor calls for 'decolonisation' of Welsh law schools
Differentiation from England 'essential' if Wales is to attract legal talent to confident emerging jurisdiction.
ProfileOff the buses: Joe Egan
Bus conductor, itinerant waiter, traveller, solicitor. New Law Society president Joe Egan has seen a lot.
OpinionBrutal and elegant - tribunal judgment will resonate for years
This richly deserved slapdown for the executive has moved at least one lawyer to tears. Bravo, Lord Reed et al.
FeatureBorn fighter: Jenny Beck
For Jenny Beck, defending people on the margins of society from the depredations of government is a vocation.
NewsLegal Wales: New Supreme Court judge calls for institute of Welsh law
Sir David Lloyd Jones calls for greater devolution in justice system.
FeatureRisk and compliance conference: ‘Get your millennials involved in media strategies’
Millennials for whom the use of technology is almost an unconscious reflex must be in the sights of firms drawing up and revising social media and marketing policies.
FeatureRisk and compliance conference: Don’t leave ethics to compliance officers, leading risk expert warns
Francis Dingwall warned 300 fellow solicitors gathered for this year’s Law Society Risk and Compliance conference not to ‘contract out’ ethical issues to compliance officers acting in isolation.
FeatureRisk and compliance conference: Brexit ‘plan B’ vital, Blacklaws tells firms
Law firms whose bottom line may be affected by Brexit must have a ‘plan B’ to reassure regulators they are preparing for the fallout.
ProfileInterview: Robert Elliott, Linklaters
‘This sucker could go down!’ George W Bush said during the global financial crisis. Robert Elliott – on his way to the top at City behemoth Linklaters – could see that for himself, hears Paul Rogerson
NewsULaw profits dip as highest-paid director banks nearly £800k
Trading has got tougher for Britain’s first for-profit university, but the University of Law has banked tens of millions of pounds from selling its property.
FeatureEurophile in at Petty France
David Lidington claims to care passionately about access to justice, but his voting record is open to question.
ProfileRobert Bourns: Parting shots
As access to justice is emasculated, public and private sector bodies are losing sight of their responsibilities, says Law Society president Robert Bourns.
NewsNews focus: LASPO four years on
A damning report from the Law Society addresses the devastating consequences of civil legal aid cuts and calls on the government to implement a string of reforms.
NewsNews focus: a vulnerable child failed by the system
A solicitor has been found culpable over a vulnerable child’s murder. But the police, protection agencies and a sclerotic justice system were also at fault.
NewsBolton firm handed £300k of taxpayers’ cash faced £300k tax demand
HMRC disputed ‘profit extractions’ by Asons Solicitors ahead of local authority’s controversial decision to hand the PI firm a grant.
News‘Dirty tactics’ and ‘racism’: Asons lambasts rival solicitors over council grant
Bolton firm issues defiant statement accusing rival practices of pursuing their own agendas as row escalates over 'secret' £300,000 grant from council.
NewsLaw Society president: why are regulators silent on cuts?
SRA and LSB both have a duty to promote access to justice and should speak out on public policy, says Robert Bourns.
NewsEnglish solicitors ‘could pay extra to practise in Wales’
Welsh businesses subsidise litigation between foreign oligarchs in London. Access to justice would be enhanced in a separate jurisdiction, policy forum hears.
