Paul Rogerson
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OpinionAway from home
In current circumstances, how many examples are there where it is business-critical that staff come in to the office?
- Opinion
Hiding from history
The past is messy, contradictory and often ambiguous. But it does a disservice to the present to hide from it.
- Opinion
End of the beginning
The appearance of legal services in last month’s Brexit deal was certainly a pleasant surprise.
- News
News focus: Post-Beckwith, SRA must focus on 'what matters to clients’
Will the SRA stop insisting 'solicitors are paragons of virtue' in their private lives?
- News
Beckwith: Solicitors’ sex lives ‘their own business’, says regulation guru
Regulators should not 'hitch themselves to transient public bandwagons', says Solicitor’s Handbook author.
- Opinion
Irish eyes not smiling
Few can be surprised the Republic of Ireland appears disinclined to indulge the UK as we skirt the cliff-edge of ‘no deal’.
- Opinion
Reality checking
The legal profession is no more immune to cognitive dissonance than any other sector.
- Opinion
Big game hunting
‘Game-changer’ sprang to mind when Big Four outfit Deloitte announced acquisition of Kemp Little.
- Opinion
Pretty green
You will have noticed something different about the weekly Gazette. I am delighted to confirm that we have made the permanent switch from plastic polywrapping to paper envelopes. Many environmentally aware readers have requested this in recent months and I am delighted to oblige.
- Profile
In search of a ‘new better’
For David Greene, the Law Society’s new president, the best of times has come at the worst of times. But he is raring to go, hears Paul Rogerson
- Opinion
Make the connection
Editing the Law Society Gazette, a behemoth among B2B magazines, is a genuine privilege. But it can be exasperating. For as long as I’ve been around, small firms have complained that we write too much about big firms – and vice versa. (And don’t forget in-house!). Most other established legal ...
- Opinion
Family duels
HHJ Stephen Wildblood QC fulminated about extent to which court lists are filled by private law litigation that should not require court involvement.
- Opinion
Military conflict
Overseas Operations Bill commits government to consider derogating from ECHR before future conflicts – a move which Society condemns.
- Opinion
Parliamentary privileges
MPs must enjoy absolute privilege from regulatory sanction in respect of how they vote in parliament.
- Opinion
Should we fret about Pret?
Service jobs displaced from city centres may rematerialise in towns from where commuters used to slog in to work - but that is beside the point.
- Opinion
Life comes at you faster
As everyday life screeched to a halt, the evolution of the legal profession itself accelerated.
- Opinion
Reed and learn
It's three years since Lord Reed delivered a devastating rebuke to government in the Supreme Court’s judgment outlawing employment tribunal fees.
- Opinion
Remember Brexit?
Chancery Lane is set to open a new front in its campaign by appealing to the EU 27 direct.
